outlier
/ˈaʊtɫaɪɝ/
an observation that lies far from other values
outlier in a sentence
“The billionaire's income is an outlier in the dataset.”
Origin of outlier
From out + lie, one who lies outside
Related Words
normal distribution
a symmetric bell-shaped probability distribution
binomial
relating to experiments with two possible outcomes
Poisson distribution
a distribution modeling rare events over fixed intervals
exponential
a distribution modeling time between events in a Poisson process
uniform
a distribution where all outcomes are equally likely
skewness
a measure of asymmetry in a probability distribution