DFFIT - difference in fits, is used to identify influential data points. It
quantifies the number of standard deviations that the fitted value changes
when the ith data point is omitted.
Steps to compute DFFITs:
Delete observations one at a time.
Refit the regression model on remaining \(n - 1\) observations
examine how much all of the fitted values change when the ith observation is deleted.
An observation is deemed influential if the absolute value of its DFFITS value is greater than:
$$2\sqrt(p + 1) / (n - p -1)$$
where n is the number of observations and p is the number of predictors including intercept.