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)