Abstract
Objectives: To compare the power of the Healy, single-outlier Grubbs, skewness and kurtosis tests for outliers and their applicability to quality control (QC). Design and methods: Power to detect outliers was calculated in simulated samples of twenty normal variates, one or two of which were shifted in mean or increased in variance. Results: All tests showed similar power against a single outlier. For two outliers shifted in the same direction, skewness then kurtosis were the most powerful; for outliers shifted in opposite directions, Healy's method was just superior to kurtosis. For two outliers of increased variance, these two methods were first equal. Conclusions: Where the number of outliers is unknown the kurtosis test for outliers is more versatile than the Grubbs test as it has greater power where there is more than one outlier, a similar power when there is just one outlier, and a similar performance in QC.
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