A Survey of Outlier Detection Methodologies
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There is no universally applicable outlier detection approach.
“There is no universally applicable outlier detection approach [43].”
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- Authors
- Hodge, V., & Austin, J.
- Affiliations
- University of York (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Austin, Jim
- Venue
- Artificial Intelligence Review
- Published
- 2004-10
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 85-126
- ISSN
- 0269-2821 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7462
- OpenAlex
- W2137130182
- Cited by
- 3,596
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 95 · 2025: 191 · 2024: 193 · 2023: 197 · 2022: 223 · 2021: 287 · 2020: 316 · 2019: 283 · 2018: 251 · 2017: 219 · 2016: 223 · 2015: 196 · 2014: 186 · 2013: 156 · 2012: 138
- FWCI
- 25.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- orcid.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Artificial Intelligence Review (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Object Detection Techniques
- Keywords
- outlier detection, anomaly detection, data cleaning, fraud detection, contaminated data
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