What's the difference between data and outlier?

Data


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) See Datum.
  • (pl. ) of Datum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
  • (2) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
  • (3) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
  • (4) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
  • (5) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
  • (6) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (7) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
  • (8) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (9) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
  • (10) The data on mapping the episomal plasmid integration sites in yeast chromosomes I, III, IV, V, VII, XV are presented.
  • (11) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
  • (12) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
  • (13) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
  • (14) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (15) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
  • (16) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
  • (17) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
  • (18) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
  • (19) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (20) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.

Outlier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.
  • (n.) That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
  • (n.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No outliers were found when data were analyzed by the Dixon, Grubbs, double Grubbs, and Cochran tests.
  • (2) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
  • (3) We need to know whether using different methods to reject outliers leads to different results in the analysis of the data.
  • (4) Bias is controlled by the use of least-squares curve fitting for all assays, and constraints on the elimination of outlier points.
  • (5) Statistical treatment of results revealed no laboratory outliers and 6 individual or replicate-total outliers, accounting for 3.3% of the data.
  • (6) Patients with a greater number of complicating conditions (CCs) had higher total hospital costs, a longer hospital length of stay, more procedures per patient, increasing financial risk under DRGs, a larger number of outliers, and a higher mortality than did patients in these same DRGs with a fewer number of CCs.
  • (7) Distribution analysis of CBF change images (outlier detection by gamma-2 statistic) was assessed as an omnibus test for state-dependent changes in regional neuronal activity.
  • (8) Banks, who made his money selling insurance and sees himself, like Nigel Farage, as an ex-public school iconoclast of the “liberal establishment”, is no longer just some rightwing outlier.
  • (9) In both cases, the data should be checked for outliers or rogue observations and these should be eliminated if the testing procedure fails to imply that they are an integral part of the data.
  • (10) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
  • (11) Of the firms analysed, Standard Chartered was found to be an outlier with 33% minority presence in this top 100 – the so-called pipeline – which the report said might be explained by its operations in Asia and the Middle East.
  • (12) Three measures of performance were studied: frequency of outliers greater than 3 standard deviations from the sample mean, the coefficient of variation (CV) of sample measurements, and the difference of the sample mean from the spike value.
  • (13) We found very low levels (less than 3 percent of normal levels) or no dystrophin in the severe Duchenne phenotype (35 of 38 patients), low concentrations of dystrophin in the intermediate (outlier) phenotype (4 of 7), and dystrophin of abnormal molecular weight in the mild Becker phenotype (12 of 18).
  • (14) Effective prophylactic measures increase profitability by preventing complications and minimizing the proportion of outliers due to increased length of stay.
  • (15) A BASIC program is described which, upon the input of raw data from an experiment comparing several treatment groups to a control, will output group parameters (mean, SEM), test for outliers in each group (maximum normalized residual test), and examine the homogeneity of variance (Bartlett's test).
  • (16) Most hospital outliers have fewer deaths or morbid cases than expected.
  • (17) Newborns with "extreme immaturity" (DRG 386) and "prematurity with major problems" (DRG 387) together accounted for less than 3% of all newborn discharges but for nearly one fourth of all outlier discharges.
  • (18) The direct linear plot was comparatively resistant to outlier observations; however, only when outliers were substantial did the method become superior to nonlinear least squares.
  • (19) Under current DRG reimbursement rates, the cost of care for rheumatology patients would be adequately reimbursed in our hospital: losses from outliers would be offset by net revenues from inliers as long as current Medicare adjustments for capital and medical education costs were continued.
  • (20) His latest book is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive.