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Hmm, I'm not sure where I demanded a certainty?
by civilized 4y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure where I demanded a certainty?
- uoaei 4y ago> the difference between an outlier and a point that is far out of the distribution of the other points because of unmodeled variation The phrasing implies mutual exclusivity here, which thus implies probability one of a data point belonging to one set and probability zero of that point belonging to the other set. To be fair, in natural language it tends to be difficult to unambiguously represent ambiguity.
- civilized 4y agoI wasn't drawing a dichotomy between "an outlier and a point that is far out of the distribution of the other points because of unmodeled variation". I was suggesting that they may be the same thing.