You're analyzing a data set and observe a point that significantly deviates from the overall pattern of the data. What role does this point play in your analysis?
- An anomaly
- An outlier
- Both An anomaly and An outlier
- Neither An anomaly nor An outlier
This point would be considered an outlier. Outliers are observations that deviate so much from other observations as to arouse suspicion that they were generated by a different mechanism.
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