outlier
IPA: ˈaʊtɫaɪɝ
noun
- A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
- An exception.
- (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.
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Examples of "outlier" in Sentences
- The people discomfited the outliers.
- Either it is an outlier or it isn't.
- ChemSpider appears to be the outlier.
- But the Shuttle is a bit of an outlier.
- An outlier is not a reasonable point of argument.
- In the presence of outliers, the statistician has two options.
- Buckbarrow is an outlier of the southern branch of the horseshoe.
- It is less sensitive to outliers, but less mathematically tractable.
- If it is the outlier, the odds of selecting the outlier are much higher.
- It is the northernmost outlier of the Virgo cluster discovered as of 2004.
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