1 code implementation • 13 Jul 2018 • M. P. Maples, D. E. Reichart, N. C. Konz, T. A. Berger, A. S. Trotter, J. R. Martin, D. A. Dutton, M. L. Paggen, R. E. Joyner, C. P. Salemi
Chauvenet rejection is one of the oldest, and simplest, ways to account for this, but, like sigma clipping, depends on the sample's mean and standard deviation, neither of which are robust quantities: Both are easily contaminated by the very outliers they are being used to reject.
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