diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 8655395..7759e01 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ libraryDependencies += "com.lambdaworks" %% "jacks" % "2.3.3"
 
 libraryDependencies += "org.scalatest" % "scalatest_2.10" % "2.2.1" % "test"
 
+libraryDependencies += "com.databricks" % "spark-csv_2.10" % "1.2.0"
+
 
 libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
     "org.eclipse.jetty.orbit" % "javax.servlet" % "3.0.0.v201112011016" artifacts Artifact("javax.servlet", "jar", "jar"),
diff --git a/src/main/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/OutlierRemovalAlgorithm.scala b/src/main/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/OutlierRemovalAlgorithm.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e17b2ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/OutlierRemovalAlgorithm.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package sampleclean.clean.outlierremoval
+
+import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
+import sampleclean.api.WorkingSet
+
+/**
+ * @author Viraj Mahesh
+ *
+ */
+trait OutlierRemovalAlgorithm {
+
+  /**
+   * Removes outliers from a dataset. The algorithm for identifying outliers
+   * depends on the implementing class.
+   *
+   * @param dataFrame The dataset that we are cleaning
+   * @return A new DataFrame with outliers removed
+   */
+  def removeOutliers(dataFrame: DataFrame): DataFrame
+}
diff --git a/src/main/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/StdDeviationFilter.scala b/src/main/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/StdDeviationFilter.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1f7592
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/StdDeviationFilter.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package sampleclean.clean.outlierremoval
+
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{Row, DataFrame}
+import sampleclean.api.SampleCleanContext
+
+/**
+ * Detects outliers based on deviation from the mean
+ *
+ * @author Viraj Mahesh
+ *
+ * @param scc The sample clean context
+ * @param maxDev An observation x is an outlier iff: abs(x - mean) > maxDev * stdDev
+ * @param colName The index of the column that will be used to classify a row
+ * as an outlier
+ */
+class StdDeviationFilter(scc: SampleCleanContext,
+                         maxDev: Double,
+                         colName: String) extends OutlierRemovalAlgorithm with Serializable {
+
+  /**
+   * Convert x to a Double
+   */
+  def toDouble(x: Any): Double = {
+    x match {
+      case n: Number => n.doubleValue()
+    }
+  }
+
+  override def removeOutliers(dataFrame: DataFrame): DataFrame = {
+    val colIdx = dataFrame.columns.indexOf(colName) // Get the column index of this column
+    val univariateData: RDD[Double] = dataFrame.map({case x: Row => toDouble(x(colIdx))})
+
+    // Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the column
+    val mean: Double = univariateData.mean
+    val stdDev: Double = univariateData.stdev
+
+    // Only keep those columns that are less than maxDev standard deviations from the mean
+    dataFrame.filter(dataFrame.col(colName) > mean - (maxDev * stdDev))
+             .filter(dataFrame.col(colName) < mean + (maxDev * stdDev))
+  }
+}
+
+object StdDeviationFilter {
+  /**
+   * Creates a new StdDeviationFilter and applies it on the dataset
+   */
+  def removeOutliers(scc: SampleCleanContext, maxDev: Double,
+                     columnName: String, dataFrame: DataFrame) = {
+    new StdDeviationFilter(scc, maxDev, columnName).removeOutliers(dataFrame)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/resources/students.csv b/src/test/resources/students.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a06c6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/students.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+'A',20,3.00
+'B',22,3.23
+'C',25,4.00
+'D',30,4.25
+'E',70,3.10
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/StdDeviationFilterTest.scala b/src/test/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/StdDeviationFilterTest.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2b1936
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/scala/sampleclean/clean/outlierremoval/StdDeviationFilterTest.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package sampleclean.clean.outlierremoval
+
+import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext
+import org.scalatest.FunSuite
+import sampleclean.clean.LocalSCContext
+
+/**
+ * @author Viraj Mahesh
+ */
+class StdDeviationFilterTest extends FunSuite with LocalSCContext with Serializable {
+
+  // Schema of the students table
+  val SCHEMA = StructType(List(
+      StructField("name", StringType, true),
+      StructField("age", IntegerType , true),
+      StructField("gpa", DoubleType, true)))
+
+  // Properties passed into the databricks CSV loader
+  val PROPERTIES = Map("path" -> "./src/test/resources/students.csv")
+
+  test("outlier removal integer column") {
+    withSampleCleanContext { scc =>
+      val sc = scc.getSparkContext()
+      val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)
+
+      val data = sqlContext.load("com.databricks.spark.csv", schema = SCHEMA, PROPERTIES)
+      val filteredData = StdDeviationFilter.removeOutliers(scc, 1.0, "age", data)
+
+      // Find the index of the age column and only retain the age column
+      val colIdx = filteredData.columns.indexOf("age")
+      val remainingValues = filteredData.map(x => x.getInt(colIdx)).collect()
+
+      assert(remainingValues.length == 4)
+
+      assert(remainingValues.contains(20))
+      assert(remainingValues.contains(22))
+      assert(remainingValues.contains(25))
+      assert(remainingValues.contains(30))
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("outlier removal double column") {
+    withSampleCleanContext { scc =>
+      val sc = scc.getSparkContext()
+      val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)
+
+      val data = sqlContext.load("com.databricks.spark.csv", schema = SCHEMA, PROPERTIES)
+      val filteredData = StdDeviationFilter.removeOutliers(scc, 1.0, "gpa", data)
+
+      // Find the index of the GPA column and only retain the gpa column
+      val colIdx = filteredData.columns.indexOf("gpa")
+      val remainingValues = filteredData.map(x => x.getDouble(colIdx)).collect()
+
+      assert(remainingValues.length == 3)
+
+      assert(remainingValues.contains(3.23))
+      assert(remainingValues.contains(4.00))
+      assert(remainingValues.contains(3.10))
+    }
+  }
+}