Identification of outliers in a coordinate pair

[Esteban Jara]

I have a pair of X and Y variables that are coordinates. If for example I have a straight street, a tw sc will show a straight line. My problem is that I need to identify points that are easily seen as outliers on a graph. Please help. (sorry for my poor English)

[Rich Goldstein]

it appears that you want something like this:

li id X Y if X>38080 & Y<7763200, clean

note that I had to make a number of assumptions about your data here and about what you mean by "identify points"; a data example, using -dataex- (read the FAQ please) would help if the above does not work

[William Lisowski]

If you are looking to identify outliers in multivariate data in an automated way without depending on the actual values of the data, the output of

search outlier

provides a long list of community contributed commands, some of which are described as being of use identifying outliers in multivariate data - which is your problem, since your example is not an outlier on either X or Y alone.

[Esteban Jara]

I found the command "bacon" and it works perfectly for my purposes. Than you very much William and Rich