Abstract:We briefly review the current trend in handling the neonatal baby weight, gestational age, and other related categorical and continuous variable data, through both robust and outlier-based methods. Graphs are generally presented as smooth curves which give a wrong visual impression and totally hide the actual variability of the data, robust methods are applied without considering that they may certainly be affected by asymmetrical contamination, and the outlier-based methods are incorrectly applied without asc… Show more
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