Mathematics/Statistics/Data Characteristics
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The following details some basic characteristics of data in statistics.
See also Core Measurements.
Min
Max
Quantiles
Outliers
Given a set of items, an outlier is an item that does not fit in with the rest. It's usually extremely low or extremely high, compared to the other values in the set.
For example, given a set of [1, 2, 3, 4, 50], 50 is an outlier, as it's much higher than the rest of the values.