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by amelius 3494 days ago
> So, in practice, what you do is you remove outliers (e.g. cap the data at +-3sigma) then use squared error.

But if you are say fitting a function to the data, you can't tell beforehand which data-points are the outliers. So in that case perhaps you need an iterative approach of removing them (?)