Anomaly vs. Outlier — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anomaly and Outlier
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Anomaly
Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
Outlier
In statistics, an outlier is a data point that differs significantly from other observations. An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set.
Anomaly
One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify
"Both men are anomalies.
Outlier
One that lives or is located outside or at the edge of a given area
Outliers of the forest standing in the field.
Anomaly
(Astronomy) The angular deviation, as observed from the sun, of a planet from its perihelion.
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Outlier
One that exists outside or at an extreme of a category, pattern, or expectation; an extreme case or exception
"those egg-laying outliers of mammaldom, the duck-billed platypus and the anteating echidna" (Natalie Angier).
Anomaly
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
Outlier
A value far from most others in a set of data
"Outliers make statistical analyses difficult" (Harvey Motulsky).
Anomaly
Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
Outlier
A portion of stratified rock separated from a main formation by erosion.
Anomaly
(science) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
Outlier
A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
Anomaly
(astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
Outlier
An exception.
Anomaly
(biology) A defect or malformation.
Outlier
(geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
Anomaly
(quantum physics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
Outlier
(statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
Anomaly
(dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
Outlier
One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.
Anomaly
Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men.
As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
Outlier
That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
Anomaly
The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.
Outlier
A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.
Anomaly
Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.
Outlier
A datum that lies significantly beyond the main cluster of data points on a graph or diagram; - suggestive of an error in measurement.
Anomaly
Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
Outlier
A person who lives away from his place of work
Anomaly
A person who is unusual
Outlier
An extreme deviation from the mean
Anomaly
(astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
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