Jula, Nicolae-Marius - In: Computational Methods in Social Sciences (CMSS) 2 (2014) 2, pp. 05-14
An outlier is an observation that appears to deviate evidently from other observations in the sample. It is important … to identify an outlier because it may suggest erroneous data or, in some cases, outliers may be due to random variation … informatics methods. An outlier in these datasets may suggest a not necessarily an erroneous data, but an untypical situation …