Best-Practice Recommendations for Defining, Identifying, and Handling Outliers

By Herman Aguinis, R. Gottfredson, Harry Joo. 2013

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability, Strategy and Management

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Is there a credibility crisis in strategic management research? Evidence on the reproducibility of study findings (2017, background): “For example, the authors of the original study may not have disclosed their decisions about outliers (Aguinis et al., 2013), cherry-picked their findings from a larger set of models (Bosco et al., 2016), tweaked and altered the analyses (Banks et al., 2016), or state that they test one type of…”
The Effects of Providing and Receiving Peer Feedback on Writing Performance and Learning of Secondary School Students (2020, methodology): “The linear regression models were also screened for outliers according to leverage, studentized residuals, and Cook’s D statistics (Aguinis et al., 2013; Fox, 1991).”
Transparency and replicability in qualitative research: The case of interviews with elite informants (2019, background): “There are circumstances in which some participants are more informative than others because they are those who know and can better articulate how things are actually done (Aguinis et al., 2013).”
Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Guide to Best Practice (2018, background): “The later explanation can be addressed with deletion or transformation of the outlying value, but the desirability of these modifications is debatable, and many methodologists recommend against their application (Aguinis et al., 2013; Zijlstra, van der Ark, & Sijtsma, 2011).”
Nonlinear Transformations in Organizational Research: Possible Problems and Potential Solutions (2018, methodology): “*Note the Sum of Squares Residual from this analysis for the score test *Examine potential outliers based on Cook’s Distance, DFBETA, DFFIT as per Aguinis et al. (2013) GRAPH /SCATTERPLOT(BIVAR)¼T1Absence WITH RES_1 /MISSING¼LISTWISE.”
Enhancing Rigor in Quantitative Entrepreneurship Research (2019, background): “…research, which often focuses on such rare events as venture capital backing or IPOs of young firms (Davidsson, 2016).9 However, not all outliers are equally interesting or influential, indicating that different types of outliers require different types of treatment (Aguinis et al., 2013).”
A Meta-Analysis of Interpersonal and Organizational Workplace Deviance Research (2019, background): “The purpose of the outlier analysis was to identify data that might bias our findings (Aguinis et al., 2013).”