Outlier — An odd & special one out
7 min readAug 15, 2024
“An extreme values that stand out greatly from overall pattern of values”
It is interesting to see the translations of “outlier” — according to its context — in English:
- Atypical
- Featured
- Exceptional
- Abnormal
- Extreme Value, Abnormal Value, Aberrant Value!
That gives us an idea, doesn’t it?
According to Wikipedia, the outliers in our dataset will be the values that “escape the range where most samples are concentrated” or the samples that are distant from other observations
1. What are Outliers? 🤔 — Lets go by books
We all have heard of the idiom ‘odd one out’ which means something unusual in comparison to the others in a group.
Similarly, an Outlier is an observation in a given dataset that lies far from the rest of the observations.
