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Which scenario most accurately describes a global outlier?
Which scenario most accurately describes a global outlier?
- A cluster of denial-of-service attacks originating from the same IP address.
- A sudden increase in website traffic originating from a specific geographic location.
- A transaction of $1000 in a bank account that typically handles transactions less than $100. (correct)
- The average daily temperature in the Sahara Desert during July.
Which of the following best exemplifies a contextual outlier?
Which of the following best exemplifies a contextual outlier?
- A single instance of extremely high server latency within a data center.
- A temperature of -30°C recorded in Miami in July. (correct)
- A network intrusion detected by an intrusion detection system.
- A group of fraudulent insurance claims submitted in the same month.
Which scenario illustrates a collective outlier?
Which scenario illustrates a collective outlier?
- A sensor malfunction causing intermittent data spikes.
- A single, unusually large purchase made on a credit card.
- A patient exhibiting a common symptom of a widespread illness.
- A series of coordinated cyberattacks targeting a specific network. (correct)
What is the primary goal of outlier detection in financial fraud detection?
What is the primary goal of outlier detection in financial fraud detection?
In the context of outlier detection, what distinguishes measurement errors from intentional errors?
In the context of outlier detection, what distinguishes measurement errors from intentional errors?
If a data point has a Z-score of 3.5, assuming a threshold of +3 to -3, how would it be classified, and what does this indicate?
If a data point has a Z-score of 3.5, assuming a threshold of +3 to -3, how would it be classified, and what does this indicate?
Which of the following is a key difference between statistical methods and machine learning methods for outlier detection?
Which of the following is a key difference between statistical methods and machine learning methods for outlier detection?
What is the most direct effect of not detecting and addressing outliers in medical diagnosis?
What is the most direct effect of not detecting and addressing outliers in medical diagnosis?
Flashcards
What is an Outlier?
What is an Outlier?
An observation that is significantly different from all other observations in a dataset.
Common causes of outliers
Common causes of outliers
Human error, intentional errors, measurement errors, and data processing errors.
Outlier Detection Applications
Outlier Detection Applications
Financial fraud detection, telecom fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and web analytics.
Global Outlier definition
Global Outlier definition
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Contextual Outlier definition
Contextual Outlier definition
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Collective Outliers definition
Collective Outliers definition
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Methods to Identify Outliers
Methods to Identify Outliers
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Z-Score Method
Z-Score Method
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Study Notes
- An outlier is an observation significantly different from all others.
Outlier Examples
- An age of 356 in a respondent age data set constitutes an outlier.
- In a total money earned per day data set, $101.20 earned on day 4 constitutes an outlier.
Common Causes of Outliers
- Human error during manual data entry, such as typos.
- Intentional errors, like dummy outliers in a dataset for testing detection methods.
- Measurement errors resulting from instrumental issues.
- Data processing errors from data manipulation or unintended dataset mutations.
Importance of Detecting Outliers
- The detection of outliers is important in data analysis
Applications of Outlier Detection
- Financial fraud detection in banking and credit card transactions.
- Telecom fraud detection.
- Medical diagnosis.
- Web analytics.
Types of Outliers
- Three types are global, contextual, and collective.
Global Outliers
- A global outlier deviates significantly from the rest of the dataset.
Contextual Outliers
- A contextual outlier deviates significantly based on a selected context.
- An example is a specific temperature in June in Ottawa.
Collective Outliers
- A subset of data objects collectively deviates significantly from the whole dataset.
- This is true even if individual data objects are not outliers themselves.
Identifying Outliers methods
- Visual methods
- Statistical methods
- Machine learning methods
Z-Score for Identifying Outliers
- Outliers are found using z-score calculations.
- They can be observed by finding data points far from 0 or the mean.
- The Z-score is calculated by subtracting the mean from each data point and dividing by the standard deviation.
- Threshold is set as +3 to -3
- Values above +3 or below -3 will be considered outliers.
- The Z-Score does have limitations
Local Outlier Factor (LOF)
- LOF is an algorithm used for unsupervised outlier detection.
- It produces an anomaly score, which represents the degree to which data points are outliers.
- It measures the local density deviation of a given data point with respect to its neighbors.
- Local density is determined by estimating distances among neighboring data points, the k-nearest neighbors.
- For each data point, local density can be calculated, checked, and similarities verified.
- Data points with lesser densities than their neighbors are considered outliers.
Isolation Forest
- Isolation Forest is an unsupervised machine-learning algorithm for anomaly detection.
- It is a type of tree-based ensemble algorithm similar to random forests.
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Learn about outlier detection in data analysis. Outliers are observations significantly different from others, often caused by errors or anomalies. Discover the importance of detecting outliers and their applications in finance, medicine, and web analytics.
