OUTLIER
Dictionary entry overview: What does outlier mean? • OUTLIER (noun)
The noun OUTLIER has 2 senses:
1. a person who lives away from his place of work
2. an extreme deviation from the mean
Familiarity information: OUTLIER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OUTLIER (noun)
Meaning:
A person who lives away from his place of work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("outlier" is a kind of...):
occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)
Meaning:
An extreme deviation from the mean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("outlier" is a kind of...):
deviation (the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
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