Table Critical values for the Dixon test of outliers

Test
Statistic
x
r10 = 2
xn

x1
x1

r11 =

x 2 x1
x n 1 x1

r21 =

x 3 x1
x n 1 x1

r22 =

x1
x n 2 x1

N
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19

0.30
0.684
0.471
0.373
0.318
0.281
0.318
0.288
0.265
0.391
0.370
0.351
0.370
0.353
0.338
0.325
0.314
0.304

0.20
0.781
0.560
0.451
0.386
0.344
0.385
0.352
0.325
0.442
0.419
0.399
0.421
0.402
0.386
0.373
0.361
0.350

Level of significance
0.10
0.05
0.02
0.976
0.941
0.886
0.846
0.765
0.679
0.729
0.642
0.557
0.644
0.560
0.482
0.596
0.507
0.434
0.631
0.554
0.479
0.587
0.512
0.441
0.551
0.477
0.409
0.638
0.576
0.517
0.605
0.546
0.490
0.578
0.521
0.467
0.602
0.546
0.492
0.579
0.525
0.472
0.559
0.507
0.454
0.542
0.490
0.438
0.527
0.475
0.424
0.514
0.462
0.412

20
21
22
23
24
25

0.295
0.287
0.280
0.274
0.268
0.262

0.340
0.331
0.323
0.316
0.310
0.304

0.401
0.391
0.382
0.374
0.367
0.360

0.01
0.988
0.889
0.780
0.698
0.637
0.683
0.635
0.597
0.679
0.642
0.615
0.641
0.616
0.595
0.577
0.561
0.547

0.005
0.994
0.926
0.821
0.740
0.680
0.725
0.677
0.639
0.713
0.675
0.649
0.674
0.647
0.624
0.605
0.589
0.575

0.502
0.491
0.481
0.472
0.464
0.457

0.535
0.524
0.514
0.505
0.497
0.489

0.562
0.551
0.541
0.532
0.524
0.516

x3

0.450
0.440
0.430
0.421
0.413
0.406

Kanji, Gopal K. 100 Statistical Tests. London : SAGE Publication Ltd., 1993.