Associations to the word «Outlier»

Wiktionary

OUTLIER, noun. A person or thing away from others or outside its proper place.
OUTLIER, noun. (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
OUTLIER, noun. (statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.

Dictionary definition

OUTLIER, noun. A person who lives away from his place of work.
OUTLIER, noun. An extreme deviation from the mean.

Wise words

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Robert Louis Stevenson