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What do we do with outliers? There are four basic ways in which outliers can be handled: The outlier can be accommodated into the data set through sophisticated statistical refinements An outlier can be incorporated by replacing it with another model The outlier can be used identify another important feature of the population being analyzed, which can lead to new experimentation If other options are of no alternative, the outlier will be rejected and regarded as a “contaminant” of the data set Sources Barnett, Vic. 1978. The study of outliers: purpose and models. Applied Statistics 27: 242