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outlier

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As a noun, outlier means a person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.

Meanings of outlier

5 meanings

noun

  1. A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.

  2. An exception.

  3. geologyA part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.

  4. statisticsA 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.

  5. An extreme deviation from the mean

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