detect_outliers: Detect outliers

In worldbank/pddcs: Prepare data for Data Collection System

Detect outliers

Description

Detect outlier values by country.

Usage

detect_outliers(df, var = "value", alpha = 0.05)

Arguments

df	data.frame: A pddcs formatted data frame. Output of fetch_indicator().
var	character: Column to use for outlier detection. Defaults to "value".
alpha	numeric: Significance level for a two-tailed test. Defaults to 0.05.

Details

Value

tibble

Examples

# Fetch source data
df <- fetch_indicator('SH.MED.PHYS.ZS', source = 'who')

# Detect outliers (alpha = 0.05)
df2 <- detect_outliers(df)
df2[df2$outlier,]

# Detect outliers (alpha = 0.01)
df3 <- detect_outliers(df, alpha = 0.01)
df3[df3$outlier,]

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