Tag: Outliers

An outlier is any piece of data that is at abnormal distance from other points in the dataset. To us humans looking at few values at guessing outliers is easy. Take a look at this, Can you guess which are outliers? [25, 26, 38, 34, 3, 33, 23, 85, 70, 28, 27] Well my frie...

Outliers are individuals that are very different from the majority of the population. Traditionally, among practitioners there is a certain mistrust in outliers, this is why ad-hoc measures such as removing them from the dataset are often adopted. However, when working with real data, outliers ar...