• Outlier

    Origin

    From outlie + -er.

    Full definition of outlier

    Noun

    outlier

    (plural outliers)
    1. A person or thing away from others or outside its proper place.
    2. (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
    3. (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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