Outlier vs. Outsider — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Outlier and Outsider
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Definitions
Outlier
In statistics, an outlier is a data point that differs significantly from other observations. An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set.
Outsider
One who is excluded from or does not belong to a group, association, or set.
Outlier
One that lives or is located outside or at the edge of a given area
Outliers of the forest standing in the field.
Outsider
One who is isolated or detached from the activities or concerns of one's own community.
Outlier
One that exists outside or at an extreme of a category, pattern, or expectation; an extreme case or exception
"those egg-laying outliers of mammaldom, the duck-billed platypus and the anteating echidna" (Natalie Angier).
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Outsider
A contestant given little chance of winning; a long shot.
Outlier
A value far from most others in a set of data
"Outliers make statistical analyses difficult" (Harvey Motulsky).
Outsider
One who is not part of a community or organization.
While the initiated easily understand the symbols, they are wholly inaccessible to outsiders.
Outlier
A portion of stratified rock separated from a main formation by erosion.
Outsider
A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community.
Seeing the mess professional politicians have made of things is it any wonder the electorate is beginning to prefer outsiders?
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Outlier
A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
Outsider
A competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; a long shot.
Johnny was an outsider at this year's karate tournament, but he still managed to win second place out of sheer determination.
Outlier
An exception.
Outsider
One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
Outlier
(geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
Outsider
A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.
Outlier
(statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
Outsider
A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.
Outlier
One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.
Outsider
Someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
Outlier
That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
Outsider
A constestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win
Outlier
A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.
Outlier
A datum that lies significantly beyond the main cluster of data points on a graph or diagram; - suggestive of an error in measurement.
Outlier
A person who lives away from his place of work
Outlier
An extreme deviation from the mean
