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Anomaly detection
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Although there is no consensus on how to describe outliers, Barnet's definition is accepted by many statisticians and computer scientists, describing an outlier as “one observation that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs [1].” In recent years, outlier detection has begun to be widely used in numerous applications. In different applications, outliers may have different names such as anomalies, deviations, exceptions, faults, and irregularities. Outlier detection can help identify intrusions in computer networks, locate malfunctioning parts in a manufacture streamline, pinpoint suspicious usage of credit cards, and monitor unusual changes of stock prices.
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Rare events often reveal more important information than common ones, especially in case of the computer security, emergency responses, and medical diagnoses. For example, a web server is expected to handle thousands of connections from...
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Barnett, V., Lewis, T.: Outliers in Statistical Data. John Wiley, New York (1994)
Breunig, M.M., Kriegel, H.-P., Ng, R.T., Sander, J.: Lof: Identifying density-based local outliers. In: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, p. 93–104, Dallas, Texas, United States, 14–19 May 2000
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Kou, Y., Lu, CT. (2008). Outlier Detection. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_944
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