Is there a numpy builtin to reject outliers from a list

Question

Is there a numpy builtin to do something like the following? That is, take a list d and return a list filtered_d with any outlying elements removed

Answer 1

I wanted to do something similar, except setting the number to NaN rather than removing it from the data, since if you remove it you change the length which can mess up plotting (i.e. if you're only removing outliers from one column in a table, but you need it to remain the same as the other columns so you can plot them against each other).

To do so I used numpy's masking functions:

def reject_outliers(data, m=2):
    stdev = np.std(data)
    mean = np.mean(data)
    maskMin = mean - stdev * m
    maskMax = mean + stdev * m
    mask = np.ma.masked_outside(data, maskMin, maskMax)
    print('Masking values outside of {} and {}'.format(maskMin, maskMax))
    return mask