福州大学智能技术课件-Outlier Detection.pdfVIP

Outlier Detection A brief introduction Fuzhou University D.Y. YE What is outlier detection? Most knowledge discovery in databases focuses on finding large patterns. However, in some certain cases, rare events or exceptional cases may be more interesting. The goal of outlier detection is to find such small patterns. What is outlier? Hawkinsdefinition: An outlier is an observation that deviates so much from other observations as to arouse the suspicion that it was generated by a different mechanism