Look up: Outlier

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   Outlier
   A patient whose length of stay or treatment cost differs substantially from the stays or costs of most other patients in a diagnosis related group. Under DRG reimbursement, outliers are given exceptional treatment subject to peer review and organization review.
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   Outlier
   One or more observations in a data set that are distant in value from the main body of the set. Outliers may come from a separate population or may result from sampling or recording errors.
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   outlier
   [n] - a person who lives away from his place of work 2. [n] - an extreme deviation from the mean
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   Outlier
   A data value which is unusual with respect to the group of data in which it is found. It may be a single isolated value far away from all the others, or a value which does not follow the general pattern of the rest. Most classical statistical techniques tend to be quite sensitive to outliers, so that it is important to be on the alert for them. Gra...
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   outlier
   A data value that stands out from others in a set; outliers can significantly affect measures of central tendency.
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   outlier
   in a sample of n observations it is possible for a limited number to be so far separated in value from the remainder that they give rise to the question whether they are not from a different population,or that the sampling technique is at fault.Such values are called outliers Category: Mathematics • Neyman and Scott(1971)considered that certain families of distributions,e.g.gamma distr...
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   Outlier
   Definition (keystage 2) A member of a data set which is different in some way from the general pattern, is called an outlier. For instance, in 0, 1, -1, 3, -2, 103, 103 is an outlier. An outlier may indicate that there was an error in the process which produced the data, or it may show there is a real abnormality in the system which we are studying ...
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   Outlier
   Out'li`er noun 1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. Bentley. 2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body. 3. (Geol.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.
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   outlier
   1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. ... 2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body. ... 3. <geology> A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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    outlier
    noun an extreme deviation from the mean
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    outlier
    noun a person who lives away from his place of work
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    Outlier
    In statistics such as stratified samples, an `outlier` is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. Statistics derived from data sets that include outliers will often be misleading. For example, if one is calculating the average temperature of 10 objects in a room, and most are between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius, but an oven is at 350 ðC, the median of the data may be 23 but the mean temperature will be 55. In this case...
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    outlier
    (out´li-әr) an observation so distant from the central mass of the data that it noticeably influences results and must be carefully checked to ensure it is not an error.
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    Outlier
    • (n.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation. • (n.) One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. • (n.) That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
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    outlier
    (from the article `Washington`) ...from Oregon, consist of uplifted plateaus and ranges in the southeast corner of the state. Gentle slopes and broad valleys descend from 6,000-foot ... ...of the major rivers flowing from the Rocky Mountains across eastern Montana are deeply incised. Scattered upon the plains and plateau surfaces are .....
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    outlier
    (from the article `Mesoamerican Indian languages`) The map gives the approximate geographic distribution of the 21 language groupings and isolates of Mesoamerica. None of the extinct undocumented ... ...Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian. The inadequacy of this subdivision is apparent; Polynesian, for example, is known to encompass...
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    outlier
    (from the article `statistics`) Sometimes data for a variable will include one or more values that appear unusually large or small and out of place when compared with the other data ...
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    outlier
    
    1. a person who lives away from his place of work
    2. an extreme deviation from the mean
    
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    outlier
    Outliers are anomalous values in the data. They may be due to recording errors, which may be correctable, or they may be due to the sample not being entirely from the same population. Apparent outliers may also be due to the values being from the same, but nonnormal (in particular, heavy-tailed), population distribution.…
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