OUTLIER

Outlier

In statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set.

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outlier

Noun

  1. A person or thing away from others or outside its proper place.
  2. A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
  3. A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.


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