Scale features using statistics that are robust to outliers.
This Scaler removes the median and scales the data according to
the quantile range (defaults to IQR: Interquartile Range).
The IQR is the range between the 1st quartile (25th quantile)
and the 3rd quartile (75th quantile).
Centering and scaling happen independently on each feature (or each
sample, depending on the ``axis`` argument) by computing the relevant
statistics on the samples in the training set. Median and interquartile
range are then stored to be used on later data using the ``transform``
method.
Standardization of a dataset is a common requirement for many
machine learning estimators. Typically this is done by removing the mean
and scaling to unit variance. However, outliers can often influence the
sample mean / variance in a negative way. In such cases, the median and
the interquartile range often give better results.
.. versionadded:: 0.17