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Glossary: Unsupervised Learning

anomaly

Also written: outlier, anomalies, outliers

A row that is unlike the others, such as a 3 a.m. $300 order from a brand-new customer. Unusual does not always mean wrong: a new café ordering in bulk is good news.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

anomaly detectionz-scoreIsolation ForestLocal Outlier Factor (LOF)