outlier
outlier
Definition
out·lier (o̵ut′lī′ər)
noun
any person or thing that lies, dwells, exists, etc. away from the main body or expected place; specif.,
- a person who resides away from his place of work or business
- a person who is excluded, or excludes himself, from some group; outsider
- Geol. a mass of rock, usually of large size, separated by erosion from the main mass
outlier
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- reject: It does not bin the data and does not reject outliers to the fit.
- exclude: Mean values are taken from replicate samples ( excluding any outliers ).
- indicate: Use the pointer to indicate the outlier in the data " .
- remove: An iterative process progressively removes the outliers from the image.
- identify: This technique is useful for identifying outliers displayed in a scatter plot on a conventional map.
- contain: Most real-world time series contain outliers, that is, extreme fluctuations due to rare events.
Converse of subject
- influence: However, because it is heavily influenced by outliers, it should be used cautiously.
Adjective modifier
- southern: The slopes of Carn a Mhaim, a southern outlier of Ben Macdui, come into view two miles west of Derry Lodge.
- extreme: I just ended up having an outcome that is an extreme outlier on the bell curve.
- eastern: Heading north, the hiking guide tempted us to try a trail in the Great Snowy Mountains, eastern outliers of the Rockies.
- few: There are a few small outliers which are often awash.
- small: There are a few small outliers which are often awash.
- large: A large outlier over 2.50m long can be located about 20m to the south west.
Preposition: on
- plot: New ability to allow the flagging of outliers on scatter plots.
Modifies a noun
- rejection: The SEPARATE flag means that outlier rejections are done only between observations from the same dataset.
- detection: A very important step here is the outlier detection.
- removal: The comparison of mean squared error with, and without outlier removal is given in Fig.
- effect: Is your primary payer initiatives is encouraged minimize outlier effects.
- sett: There was no evidence that the temperature regime of main setts differed from that of outlier setts.
Preposition: in
- datum: Use the pointer to indicate the outlier in the data " .
