Outlier

Outlier
Outlier Out"li`er, n. 1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]

2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body. [1913 Webster]

3. (Geol.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation. [1913 Webster]

4. (Statistics) A datum that lies significantly beyond the main cluster of data points on a graph or diagram; -- suggestive of an error in measurement. [PJC]


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  • outlier — UK US /ˈaʊtˌlaɪər/ noun [C] ► a fact, figure, piece of data, etc. that is very different from all the others in a set and does not seem to fit the same pattern: »Eliminating one or two obvious outliers, charges range from 0.45% per annum to 3.67% …   Financial and business terms

  • outlier — (n.) c.1600, stone quarried and removed but left unused, from OUT (Cf. out) + LIE (Cf. lie) (v.2). Transferred meaning outsider is recorded from 1680s; anything detached from its main body is from 1849; geological sense is from 1833 …   Etymology dictionary

  • outlier — ► NOUN 1) a thing detached from a main body or system. 2) Geology a younger rock formation among older rocks …   English terms dictionary

  • outlier — [out′lī΄ər] n. any person or thing that lies, dwells, exists, etc. away from the main body or expected place; specif., a) a person who resides away from his place of work or business b) a person who is excluded, or excludes himself, from some… …   English World dictionary

  • Outlier — This article is about the statistical term. For other uses, see Outlier (disambiguation). Figure 1. Box plot of data from the Michelson Morley Experiment displaying outliers in the middle column. In statistics, an outlier[1] is an observ …   Wikipedia

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