Vasireddy Bindu Hasitha

How are Outliers Determined in Seaborn using Boxplot?

Vasireddy Bindu Hasitha

Updated on 23-Apr-2024 2K+ Views

What are Outliers? Outliers are the data points or observations which are far from the other points in a dataset. Outliers are caused due to measurement error, data entry error or experimental error etc. Outliers can skew the dataset which effects in statistical analysis and can increase the standard deviation of the dataset further effecting model prediction. An outlier may be a valid data point or can be noise. For a better understanding let us look at an example scenario. Imagine you are collecting data of student's height (age between 9 to 12 years). Most of the students are around ...