Is it time to stop sweeping data cleaning under the carpet? A novel algorithm for outlier management in growth data.

All data are prone to error and require data cleaning prior to analysis. An important example is longitudinal growth data, for which there are no universally agreed standard methods for identifying and removing implausible values and many existing methods have limitations that restrict their usage a...

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Main Authors: Charlotte S C Woolley, Ian G Handel, B Mark Bronsvoort, Jeffrey J Schoenebeck, Dylan N Clements
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228154