Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈaʊtˌlaɪə(ɹ)/
outlier (plural outliers)
- A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
- (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
- (statistics) 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.
- French: cas isolé, exception
- German: Ausreißer, Sonderfall
- Italian: eccezione, anomalia
- Portuguese: extravagante
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