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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning
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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

by Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
282 pages
6h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Filtering values

We can filter the values that lie above the maximum value and below the minimum value. The minimum value can be calculated by using the formula: quartile25 - (IQR * 1.5) and maximum value as quartile75 + (IQR*1.5).

The method to calculate maximum and minimum values is based on Turkey Fences, which was developed by John Turkey. The value 1.5 indicates about 1% of measurements as outliers and is synonymous with the 3σ principle, which is practiced as a bound in many statistical tests. We can use any value other than 1.5, which is at our discretion. However, the bound may increase or decrease the number of outliers in the dataset.

We utilize the following Python code to calculate the Max and Min values of a dataset:

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