Find and investigate spreadsheet outliers

Auteur: AILesson7 min de préparationTesté avec:ChatGPTRévisé: 2026-08-28

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Flag unusual values with a method suited to the distribution, then investigate before removal. Fournir: Metric and business meaning, Data profile, Investigation and usage. Résultat attendu: Transparent outlier flags, context checks, and keep-correct-remove decisions.

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Design a spreadsheet outlier analysis.

Metric, unit, valid range, and groups:
[metric]

Data profile and representative values:
[distribution]

Investigation purpose and policy:
[policy]

Separate impossible values, data-entry errors, rare but valid events, and influential observations. Choose a transparent method appropriate to skew and sample size, such as business-rule limits, IQR, robust z-score, or within-group comparison. Return formulas, thresholds, an OutlierReason field, and a review workflow. Do not delete or winsorize values automatically. Show how conclusions change with and without flagged observations and how each row can be traced to source evidence.
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Entrée réelle

Metric and business meaning
OrderValue in GBP, nonnegative. Analyze typical order size by CustomerType because Wholesale orders are normally larger than Retail.
Data profile
2,400 orders. Retail n=2,100: Q1 £28, median £46, Q3 £72, max £8,400. Wholesale n=300: Q1 £410, median £690, Q3 £1,100, max £12,500. Three values are negative; one Retail row is £8,400; several Wholesale rows exceed £4,000.
Investigation and usage
Find data errors and understand whether extreme orders distort the average. Every order can be checked against an invoice. Do not remove a valid large order.

Exemple de sortie

Apply the nonnegative business rule first: all three negative values are Invalid and require invoice or source correction. Detect unusual values within CustomerType, not across the mixed population.

For Retail, IQR = 72−28 = 44 and the upper fence is 72+1.5×44 = £138. This intentionally flags many high Retail orders for investigation, not deletion. For Wholesale, IQR = 690 and the upper fence is £2,135. Add group quartiles in a summary table and an OutlierReason column that distinguishes Negative-invalid, Above-group-IQR, and Not-flagged.

The £8,400 Retail order is highly unusual; verify customer type, decimal placement, currency, duplicates, and invoice. If verified, retain it as Rare-valid and explain its influence. Wholesale orders above £4,000 receive the same source check but should not be compared with the Retail threshold.

Report median and IQR as the primary typical-size statistics. Show mean order value with all valid rows and again excluding Rare-valid rows as a sensitivity analysis, while keeping the official total revenue unchanged. Record OrderID, flag, evidence checked, decision, reviewer, and date for every changed classification.

Pourquoi cela fonctionne

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    Separating invalid from unusual prevents legitimate high-impact events from being erased.

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    Sensitivity results reveal whether a small number of observations drives the conclusion.

Vérifier le résultat

  • Is the detection method appropriate for the metric distribution and groups?

  • Are impossible, erroneous, and rare-valid values labeled separately?

  • Is every correction backed by source evidence?

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