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This chapter introduces the notion of outlier and its essential properties. It presents a characterization of outliers based on their size, diversity and role in a given context. It also provides a theoretical perspective on the significance of outliers along with the practical need for their detection.
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Ranga Suri, N.N.R., Murty M, N., Athithan, G. (2019). Introduction. In: Outlier Detection: Techniques and Applications. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05127-3_1
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