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单词 outlier
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outlier
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In statistics an outlier is a piece of data that is far from the rest; think of a graph with dots, where most dots are clustered together in the middle, but one dot, the outlier, is at the top.
Think of an outlier as an outsider. An outlier refers to anything that strays from, or isn’t part of, the norm. If you like to sleep in a tent in the backyard while your neighbors and family sleep in their beds, you’re probably an outlier. You may also be an outlier if you have to travel far to your job. In geology, rock that is separated from another rock formation is called an outlier.
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The Emerald City is one of several progressive urban outliers in the new era of conservative power.
Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016)
That disqualified more than half of the store, and so I was drawn to the outliers.
New York Times(Dec 28, 2016)
Admittedly, many of us in media-land tend to lockstep to the same films, or throw in a requisite foreign outlier.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 26, 2016)
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n an extreme deviation from the mean
Hyper
deviation
the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function
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n a person who lives away from his place of work
Hyper
occupant, occupier, resident
someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
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