Preparatory Data Analysis

By L. Fidell, B. Tabachnick. 2003

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Best-Practice Recommendations for Defining, Identifying, and Handling Outliers (2013, methodology): “Regarding outlyingness based on scores of predictors, researchers can use leverage, centered leverage, or Mahalanobis distance values because they produce the same type of information but on different scales (Fidell & Tabachnick, 2003).”
Let's be friends: Relational self‐construal and the development of intimacy (2006, background): “This Z-score cutoff point was established by Fidell and Tabachnick (2003) as a legitimate indicator of outliers that can be excluded from analysis.”
The effect of acute cognitively engaging physical activity breaks on children's executive functions: Too much of a good thing? (2018, background): “Ten children were identified as multivariate outliers based on the Mahalanobis distance (Fidell & Tabachnick, 2003) greater than 27.877 (p .001, df=9), and were therefore excluded.”
Moral disengagement of hotel guest negative WOM: moral identity centrality, moral awareness, and anger. (2014, methodology): “The dataset was also checked against Mahalanobis-Distance critical value (Fidell & Tabachnick, 2003).”