Comparing Outlier Detection Methods using Boxplot Generalized Extreme Studentized Deviate and Sequential Fences

Abstract

Outliers identification is essential in data analysis since it can make wrong inferential statistics. This study aimed to compare the performance of Boxplot, Generalized Extreme Studentized Deviate (Generalized ESD), and Sequential Fences method in identifying outliers. A published dataset wasused in the study. Based on preliminary outlier identification, the data did not contain outliers. Each outlier detection method'sperformance was evaluated by contaminating the original data with few outliers. The contaminations were conducted by replacing the two smallest and largest observations with outliers. The analysis was conducted using SAS version 9.2 for both original and contaminated data. We found that Sequential Fences have outstanding performance in identifying outliers compared to Boxplot and Generalized ESD.