Finding outliers in dataset using python

Renu Khandelwal
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
3 min readSep 23, 2018

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In this article, we will use z score and IQR -interquartile range to identify any outliers using python

Jupyter notebook is available at- https://github.com/arshren/MachineLearning/blob/master/Identifying%20outliers.ipynb

What is an outlier?

An outlier is a data point in a data set that is distant from all other observations. A data point that lies outside the overall distribution of the dataset.

What are the criteria to identify an outlier?

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