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Re:New method identifies the root causes of statistical outl... by nl on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:00AM (#32162002)
There are many statistical tests that will tell you that based on the observations alone (with no model). Basically this depends on how many 5s there are.
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Re:New method identifies the root causes of statistical outl... by whatshisface on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @10:56AM (#32166644)
Every single one of those tests makes an implicit assumption about the distribution, explicit in its derivation. Usually, it is that the distribution is Gaussian.
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