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Default Removing statistical outliers

I have an article here that might be useful to you:

http://www.codeforexcelandoutlook.co...lude-extremes/

--JP

On Oct 6, 1:59*pm, William wrote:
I have a large range of data (thousands of rows) and I was performing the
functions average and max on cells that had time format 37:30:55. I realized
in the data there were a few records that had an abnormally large value in
them and from discussion they were due to unavoidable circumstances. There
are a few records in each data set I am working with which are skewing my
numbers (very large values). Is there a way to tell these functions (or use a
different function that returns the same results) to exclude outliers or any
outlier larger/smaller then what I specify?