Outlier detection aims to find a data sample that is significantly different from other data samples. Various outlier detection methods have been proposed and have been shown to be able to detect anomalies in many practical problems. However, in high dimensional data, conventional outlier detection methods often behave unexpectedly due to a phenomenon called the curse of dimensionality. In this paper, we compare and analyze outlier detection performance in various experimental settings, focusing on text data with dimensions typically in the tens of thousands. Experimental setups were simulated to compare the performance of outlier detection methods in unsupervised versus semisupervised mode and uni-modal versus multi-modal data distributions. The performance of outlier detection methods based on dimension reduction is compared, and a discussion on using k-NN distance in high dimensional data is also provided. Analysis through experimental comparison in various environments can provide insights into the application of outlier detection methods in high dimensional data.
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Outlier detection in high dimensional data sets is a challenging data mining task. Mining outliers in subspaces seems to be a promising solution, because outliers may be embedded in some interesting subspaces. Searching for all possible subspaces can lead to the problem called "the curse of dimensionality". Due to the existence of many irrelevant dimensions in high dimensional data sets, it is of paramount importance to eliminate the irrelevant or unimportant dimensions and identify interesting subspaces with strong correlation. Normally, the correlation among dimensions can be determined by traditional feature selection techniques or subspace-based clustering methods. The dimension-growth subspace clustering techniques can find interesting subspaces in relatively lower dimension spaces, while dimension-reduction approaches try to group interesting subspaces with larger dimensions. This paper aims to investigate the possibility of detecting outliers in correlated subspaces. We present a novel approach by identifying outliers in the correlated subspaces. The degree of correlation among dimensions is measured in terms of the mean squared residue. In doing so, we employ a dimension-reduction method to find the correlated subspaces. Based on the correlated subspaces obtained, we introduce another criterion called "shape factor" to rank most important subspaces in the projected subspaces. Finally, outliers are distinguished from most important subspaces by using classical outlier detection techniques. Empirical studies show that the proposed approach can identify outliers effectively in high dimensional data sets.
In this paper the use of outlier detection methods is discussed. This analysis is an introduction to the use of various methods of outlier detection in medical diagnoses (screening). The authors investigated the usefulness of selected outlier detection methods in the context of detection sensitivity, speed performance analysis and the difficulty of automating the performance analysis by using the test methods for outlier detection.
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This paper introduces an approach to outlier mining in the context of rule-based knowledge bases. Rules in knowledge bases are a very specific type of data representation and it is necessary to analyze them carefully, especially when they differ from each other. The goal of the paper is to analyze the influence of using different similarity measures and clustering methods on the number of outliers discovered during the mining process. The results of the experiments are presented in Section 6 in order to discuss the significance of the analyzed parameters.
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