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Using rolling average for data cleaning / remove outliers

Abhilash NenmilyMember for 15 years
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Hi Guys,

 

I have a set of data which has daily and seasonal cycle and expands over ten years. I need to remove erroneous values using the rolling average of 5 pints at a time +/- 3 standard deviations. I might end up using more points for the rolling average (maximum of 24 values which represent the whole day) till I get something that just eliminates the wrong values. Also the +/- 3 standard deviations might be replaced by +/- 2 standard deviations as it suites my work.

 

Essentially I want to remove outliers based on a rolling average principle (averaging the whole sample would dampen the cycles I have)….

 

Can anyone suggest how to do this in Microsoft Excel?

 

Ideally, the method should show me the points it identifies as outliers before just deleting them.

Thank you,

Regards,

Abhilash

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    Ismet Kocaman ·

    Hello Abhilash,This is a

    Hello Abhilash,

    This is a forum for MS Project. IMHO, pls consider posting your question in an Excel related forum.

    Regards,

    Ismet.

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    Mike Testro ·

    Hi Ismet. There isn't

    Hi Ismet.

    There isn't one.

    Best regards

    Mike Testro

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