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outlier

/out-lahy-er/US // ˈaʊtˌlaɪ ər //UK // (ˈaʊtˌlaɪə) //

例外者,离群索居者,离群索居,例外值

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands: The small factory was an outlier, and unproductive, so the corporation sold it off to private owners who were able to make it profitable.
    • : someone who stands apart from others of his or her group, as by differing behavior, beliefs, or religious practices: scientists who are outliers in their views on climate change.
    • : Statistics. an observation that is well outside of the expected range of values in a study or experiment, and which is often discarded from the data set: Experience with a variety of data-reduction problems has led to several strategies for dealing with outliers in data sets.a person whose abilities, achievements, etc., lie outside the range of statistical probability.
    • : Geology. a part of a formation left detached through the removal of surrounding parts by erosion.Compare inlier.
    • : Obsolete. a person residing outside the place of his or her business, duty, etc.

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Examples

  • This database should cover design projects in all sectors and domains, not just those in machine learning, and explicitly acknowledge absences and outliers.

  • First off, they are an outlier among this year’s top defenses.

  • Put another way, states that are outliers based on some combination of the variables listed above tend to be harder to predict.

  • More recently, machine-learning based approaches try to identify patterns of normal activity and raise flags only when outliers are detected.

  • This week was also a good reminder that outliers can occur in either direction.

  • But Florida is kind of an outlier, because culturally, only the northern half of Florida is Dixie.

  • Egeland is something of an outlier among the worldwide community of humanitarians because he says this sort of thing out loud.

  • Actually, the United States is an outlier among democracies in granting such generous free speech guarantees.

  • In comparison to other NWO conspiracy theorists, experts say Ciancia is an outlier.

  • Said Fidas: “ExxonMobil remains a significant holdout with respect to LGBT equality and in many ways an outlier.”

  • It is on this series that the Shannon rises, under the high outlier of grit on Cuilcagh.

  • The extreme south-east of the county includes part of the Triassic outlier of Kingscourt.

  • This mighty outlier was the one object which riveted our eyes, quite eclipsing the more distant glories of the Bernina.

  • It does not reach 10,000 feet, and it is out-topped by a southern outlier, probably Monte Frerone.

  • From its position as an outlier of the great chain, we had expected much from the Adamello, and now we were not disappointed.