A Study on Detection of Outliers and Influential Observations in Linear Models

A new diagnostic statistic for detecting outliers and influential observations in linear models is suggested and studied in this paper. The proposed statistic is a weighted sum of two measures ; one is for detecting outliers and the other is for detecting influential ovservations. The merit of this statistic is that it is possible to distinguish outliers from influential observations. This statistic can be used for not only regression models but also factorial design models. A Monte Carlo simulation study is reported to suggest critical values for detecting outliers and influential observations for simple regression models when the number of observations is 11. 21, 31, 41 or 51.