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title: How do you treat outlier values?
description: Data Points which do not follow a particular data distribution ( Followed by the majority of other data points) are called outliers . An outlier is a data point that is distant from other majority poi
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# How do you treat outlier values?

Data Points which do not follow a particular data distribution ( Followed by the majority of other data points) are called outliers . An outlier is a data point that is distant from other majority points. They may be due to variability in the measurement. They may be a result of experimental errors. If possible, outliers should be excluded / handled  from the data set before training a machine learning model.

**Below are some of the methods of treating the outliers**

- Trimming/removing the outlier
- Quantile based flooring and capping
- Mean/Median imputation

### Trimming/Remove the outliers

In this technique, we remove the outliers from the dataset. Although it is not a good practice to follow.

Python code to delete the outlier and copy the rest of the elements to another array.

```
# Trimmingfor i in sample_outliers:    a = np.delete(sample, np.where(sample==i))print(a)# print(len(sample), len(a))
```

### Quantile based flooring and capping

In this technique, the outlier is capped at a certain value above the 90th percentile value or floored at a factor below the 10th percentile value.

Python code:

```
# Computing 10th, 90th percentiles and replacing the outlierstenth_percentile = np.percentile(sample, 10)ninetieth_percentile = np.percentile(sample, 90)# print(tenth_percentile, ninetieth_percentile)b = np.where(sample<tenth_percentile, tenth_percentile, sample)b = np.where(b>ninetieth_percentile, ninetieth_percentile, b)# print("Sample:", sample)print("New array:",b)
```

The data points that are lesser than the 10th percentile are replaced with the 10th percentile value and the data points that are greater than the 90th percentile are replaced with 90th percentile value

### Mean/Median imputation

As the mean value is highly influenced by the outliers, it is advised to replace the outliers with the median value.

Python Code:

```
median = np.median(sample)# Replace with medianfor i in sample_outliers:    c = np.where(sample==i, 14, sample)print("Sample: ", sample)print("New array: ",c)# print(x.dtype)
```

 

 

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