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Weird galaxies are outliers that have either unknown or very uncommon features making them different from the normal sample. These galaxies are very interesting as they may provide new insights into current theories, or can be used to form…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-20 Job Formsma , Teymoor Saifollahi

Outlier detection has gained increasing interest in recent years, due to newly emerging technologies and the huge amount of high-dimensional data that are now available. Outlier detection can help practitioners to identify unwanted noise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Mads Lindskou , Torben Tvedebrink , Poul Svante Eriksen , Niels Morling

In this paper, we investigate the impact of outliers on the statistical significance of coefficients in linear regression. We demonstrate, through numerical simulation using R, that a single outlier can cause an otherwise insignificant…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-21 Felix Reichel

Outlier detection can serve as an extremely important tool for researchers from a wide range of fields. From the sectors of banking and marketing to the social sciences and healthcare sectors, outlier detection techniques are very useful…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-12 Efthymios Costa , Ioanna Papatsouma

When applying a statistical method in practice it often occurs that some observations deviate from the usual assumptions. However, many classical methods are sensitive to outliers. The goal of robust statistics is to develop methods that…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-08-06 Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Stefan Van Aelst

Weighted Outlier Detection is a method for identifying unusual or anomalous data points in a dataset, which can be caused by various factors like human error, fraud, or equipment malfunctions. Detecting outliers can reveal vital information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ravindrakumar Purohit , Jai Prakash Verma , Rachna Jain , Madhuri Bhavsar

A theory of exceptional extreme events, characterized by their abnormal sizes compared with the rest of the distribution, is presented. Such outliers, called "dragon-kings", have been reported in the distribution of financial drawdowns,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 V. I. Yukalov , D. Sornette

In this paper we characterize the possible outliers in the spectrum of large deformed unitarily invariant additive and multiplicative models, as well as the eigenvectors corresponding to them. We allow both the non-deformed unitarily…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Serban Teodor Belinschi , Hari Bercovici , Mireille Capitaine , Maxime Fevrier

Failure of the main argument for the use of heavy tailed distribution in Finance is given. More precisely, one cannot observe so many outliers for Cauchy or for symmetric stable distributions as we have in reality. keywords:outliers;…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-01-07 Lev B Klebanov

When a variety of anomalous features motivate flagging different samples as outliers, Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) offers a principled way to unify them in terms of a sample's randomness deficiency. Subject to the algorithmic Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aram Ebtekar , Yuhao Wang , Dominik Janzing

Classification is the basis of cognition. Unlike other solutions, this study approaches it from the view of outliers. We present an expanding algorithm to detect outliers in univariate datasets, together with the underlying foundation. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-01-04 C. A. Hsiao

Outlier detection is an important problem occurring in a wide range of areas. Outliers are the outcome of fraudulent behaviour, mechanical faults, human error, or simply natural deviations. Many data mining applications perform outlier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juan A. Lara , David Lizcano , Víctor Rampérez , Javier Soriano

We revisit the outlier hypothesis testing framework of Li \emph{et al.} (TIT 2014) and derive fundamental limits for the optimal test under the generalized Neyman-Pearson criterion. In outlier hypothesis testing, one is given multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Lin Zhou , Yun Wei , Alfred Hero

Outlier detection plays an essential role in many data-driven applications to identify isolated instances that are different from the majority. While many statistical learning and data mining techniques have been used for developing more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Ninghao Liu , Donghwa Shin , Xia Hu

Recent advances in technology have brought major breakthroughs in data collection, enabling a large amount of data to be gathered over time and thus generating time series. Mining this data has become an important task for researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ane Blázquez-García , Angel Conde , Usue Mori , Jose A. Lozano

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to produce incorrect predictions with very high confidence on out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs. This limitation is one of the key challenges in the adoption of deep learning models in high-assurance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ramneet Kaur , Susmit Jha , Anirban Roy , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Functional data analysis can be seriously impaired by abnormal observations, which can be classified as either magnitude or shape outliers based on their way of deviating from the bulk of data. Identifying magnitude outliers is relatively…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-24 Wenlin Dai , Tomas Mrkvicka , Ying Sun , Marc G. Genton

Outliers are ubiquitous in modern data sets. Distance-based techniques are a popular non-parametric approach to outlier detection as they require no prior assumptions on the data generating distribution and are simple to implement. Scaling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-04 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Andreas Krause

Statistics of drawdowns (loss from the last local maximum to the next local minimum) plays an important role in risk assessment of investment strategies. As they incorporate higher ($>$ two) order correlations, they offer a better measure…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Anders Johansen

Some key issues in robust clustering are discussed with focus on Gaussian mixture model based clustering, namely the formal definition of outliers, ambiguity between groups of outliers and clusters, the interaction between robust clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Christian Hennig