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An outlier is an observation that appears to be unusual or not well described relative to a simple characterization of a dataset. A discomfiting possibility is that these data come from a different population than the one intended to be studied.

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How to identify spikes in a noisy time series?

This does not sound like clustering to me. (In particular, clustering usually works with multiple multi-dimensional instances; and commonly has no awareness of time, but you have a single 1-dimensiona …
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Unsupervised outlier detection in 2D space

These are your outliers. You can tell there are some subclusters in both cities. For example one corresponding to the Prisma Joensuu shopping mall. …
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Robust parameter estimation for Exponentially modified Gaussian distribution

However, the parameter estimation (which involves Skewness) is not very robust when there are outliers in the data set. …
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Estimating parameters of a normal distribution: median instead of mean?

However, if there are some outliers, the median and the median deviation from the median should be much more robust, right? … Is there any reason to not use the median if you assume there are some outliers in the data set? Do you know some reference for this approach? …
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