Outlier/Definition

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
A definition or brief description of Outlier.

An outlying observation that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs, and is numerically distant from the rest of the data.