(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.