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alphaOutlier

Obtain Alpha-Outlier Regions for Well-Known Probability Distributions

v1.2.2 · Apr 26, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

Given the parameters of a distribution, the package uses the concept of alpha-outliers by Davies and Gather (1993) to flag outliers in a data set. See Davies, L.; Gather, U. (1993): The identification of multiple outliers, JASA, 88 423, 782-792, <doi:10.1080/01621459.1993.10476339> for details.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 29, 2026
NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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Maintainer: ‘Andre Rehage <rehage@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Andre",
                      family = "Rehage",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
 
...[truncated]...
     family = "Kuhnt",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

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which likely give several index terms:
  File ‘alphaOutlier-package.Rd’:
    \keyword{package
      distribution
      robust}
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Andre Rehage <rehage@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Andre",
                      family = "Rehage",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
 
...[truncated]...
     family = "Kuhnt",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

Found the following \keyword or \concept entries
which likely give several index terms:
  File ‘alphaOutlier-package.Rd’:
    \keyword{package
      distribution
      robust}

Code

Structure

Lines of code

1,439

Files

43

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 586 (40.7%)Docs 853 (59.3%)

API

Exported functions

17

Internal functions

0

Recent export changes

v1.2.0+1 aout.kernel
v1.1.0+1 createDesMat

Testing & CI

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0.00

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

100%

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

5

First release

2015-05-07

Latest release

2026-04-27

Avg cadence

242 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

2

LOC over versions

v1.0.0: 1,266 LOCv1.0.1: 1,264 LOCv1.1.0: 1,303 LOCv1.2.0: 1,439 LOCv1.2.2: 1,439 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rsolnp nleqslv quantreg alphaOutlier

Version History

6 tracked
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.0 diff Apr 27, 2026
new 1.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.0 diff Sep 8, 2016
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.1 diff Jun 30, 2015
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff May 14, 2015
new 1.0.0 May 6, 2015