A collection of some tests commonly used for identifying outliers: - Chi-squared test for outlier - Test for outlying or inlying variance - Dixon tests for outlier - Grubbs tests for one or two outliers in data sample - Find value with largest difference from the mean - Critical values and p-values for Cochran outlying variance test - Critical values and p-values for Dixon test - Calculate critical values and p-values for Grubbs test - Interpolate tabularized distribution - Remove the value(s) most differing from the mean - Calculate scores of the sample WWW: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/outliers/