outlier detection
/ˈaʊtlaɪər dɪˌtekʃən/
Identifying data points that differ significantly from others
outlier detection in a sentence
“Outlier detection flagged suspicious transactions for review.”
Origin of outlier detection
From out (Old English ut) + lie (Old English licgan) + Latin detectio (uncovering)
Related Words
clustering
Grouping similar data points together
classification
Predicting which category a data point belongs to
regression
Predicting a continuous numerical value
time series
Data points indexed in time order
anomaly detection
Identifying unusual patterns that don't conform to expected behavior
ETL
Extract, Transform, Load - the data pipeline process