find_outliers: Identify Outliers in a Numeric Variable

In qtkit: Quantitative Text Kit

Identify Outliers in a Numeric Variable

Description

This function identifies outliers in a numeric variable of a data.frame using the interquartile range (IQR) method.

Usage

find_outliers(data, variable_name)

Arguments

data	A data.frame object.
variable_name	A symbol representing a numeric variable in data.

Value

A data.frame containing the outliers in variable_name. If no outliers are found, the function returns NULL. The function also prints diagnostic information about the variable and the number of outliers found.

Examples

data(mtcars)
find_outliers(mtcars, mpg)
find_outliers(mtcars, wt)

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