Outlier Detection -- Theory, Visualizations, and Code

Outlier Detection is also known as anomaly detection, noise detection, deviation detection, or exception mining. There is no universally accepted definition. An early definition by (Grubbs, 1969) is: An outlying observation, or outlier, is one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs. An observation which appears to be inconsistent with the remainder of that set of data. A list of applications that utilize outlier detection according to (Hodge, V.J. and Austin, J., 2014) is: This is analogous to unsupervised clustering.