Removing outliers easily in R

问题

I have data with discrete x-values, such as

x = c(3,8,13,8,13,3,3,8,13,8,3,8,8,13,8,13,8,3,3,8,13,8,13,3,3)
y = c(4,5,4,6,7,20,1,4,6,2,6,8,2,6,7,3,2,5,7,3,2,5,7,3,2);

How can I generate a new dataset of x and y values where I eliminate pairs of values where the y-value is 2 standard deviations above the mean for that bin. For example, in the x=3 bin, 20 is more than 2 SDs above the mean, so that data point should be removed.

回答1:

for me you want something like :

 by(dat,dat$x, function(z) z$y[z$y < 2*sd(z$y)])
dat$x: 3
[1] 4 1 6 5 7 3 2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
dat$x: 8
[1] 4 2 2 2 3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
dat$x: 13
[1] 3 2

EDIT after comment :

 by(dat,dat$x, 
           function(z) z$y[abs(z$y-mean(z$y))< 2*sd(z$y)])

EDIT

I slightly change the by function to get x and y, then I call rbind using do.call

   do.call(rbind,by(dat,dat$x,function(z) {
                              idx <- abs(z$y-mean(z$y))< 2*sd(z$y)
                              z[idx,]
            }))

or using plyr in single call

 ddply(dat,.(x),function(z) {
                 idx <- abs(z$y-mean(z$y))< 2*sd(z$y)
                  z[idx,]})

回答2:

Something like this?

newdata <- cbind(x,y)[-which(y>2*sd(y)), ]

Or you mean something like this?

Data <- cbind(x,y)
Data[-which(sd(y)>rowMeans(Data)), ]

回答3:

You can use tapply for this, but you will lose your original ordering.

tapply(y,x,function(z) z[abs(z-mean(z))<2*sd(z)])
$`3`
[1] 4 1 6 5 7 3 2

$`8`
 [1] 5 6 4 2 8 2 7 2 3 5

$`13`
[1] 4 7 6 6 3 2 7

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15160485/removing-outliers-easily-in-r

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standard-deviation