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单词 outlier
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outlier

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out·li·er

O0161400 (out′lī′ər)n.1. One that lives or is located outside or at the edge of a given area: outliers of the forest standing in the field.2. One that exists outside or at an extreme of a category, pattern, or expectation; an extreme case or exception: "those egg-laying outliers of mammaldom, the duck-billed platypus and the anteating echidna" (Natalie Angier).3. A value far from most others in a set of data: "Outliers make statistical analyses difficult" (Harvey Motulsky).4. A portion of stratified rock separated from a main formation by erosion.

outlier

(ˈaʊtˌlaɪə) n1. (Geological Science) an outcrop of rocks that is entirely surrounded by older rocks2. a person, thing, or part situated away from a main or related body3. a person who lives away from his place of work, duty, etc4. (Statistics) statistics a point in a sample widely separated from the main cluster of points in the sample. See scatter diagram

out•li•er

(ˈaʊtˌlaɪ ər)

n. 1. a person residing away from a business, duty, etc. 2. Geol. a part of a formation left detached through the removal of surrounding parts by erosion. [1600–10]
Thesaurus
Noun1.outlier - a person who lives away from his place of workoccupant, occupier, resident - someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
2.outlier - an extreme deviation from the meanstatistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parametersdeviation - the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function
Translations

outlier

enUK

outlier

[′au̇t‚lī·ər] (geology) A group of rocks separated from the main mass and surrounded by outcrops of older rocks. (statistics) In a set of data, a value so far removed from other values in the distribution that its presence cannot be attributed to the random combination of chance causes.

outlier

An entity outside the norm. Pronounced "out-liar," an outlier may refer to a person, organization or to data way outside the normal range. See anomaly detection.

outlier

enUK

outlier

 [out´li-er] an observation so distant from the central mass of the data that it noticeably influences results and must be carefully checked to ensure it is not an error.

out·li·er

(owt'lē-ĕr), An observation that differs so widely from all others in a set as to justify the conclusion that a gross error has occurred or that it comes from a different population.

outlier

Any value outside of an expected range.

outlier

Managed care A Pt who falls outside of the norm–ie, who has an extremely long length of hospital stay or has incurred extraordinarily high costs. See Extreme outlier, High mortality outlier.

out·li·er

(owt'lī-ĕr) 1. Deviant values or figures that are obviously from a different population than those from the rest of the sample. 2. Additions to an estimated cost of delivered services when exceeding a fixed loss threshold.

Outlier

enUK

Outlier

A data point significantly different from others in the same set. An outlier is generally due to statistical noise and not to any fundamental difficulty with the data set. Taking the mean and median values of a data set can help reduce the influence of outliers. They are also called outlying observations.

outlier

enUK
  • noun

Words related to outlier

noun a person who lives away from his place of work

Related Words

  • occupant
  • occupier
  • resident

noun an extreme deviation from the mean

Related Words

  • statistics
  • deviation
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