Similarity- based approach for outlier detection

Amina Dik, Khalid Jebari, Abdelaziz Bouroumi, Aziz Ettouhami

Published 2014-11-25Version 1

This paper presents a new approach for detecting outliers by introducing the notion of object's proximity. The main idea is that normal point has similar characteristics with several neighbors. So the point in not an outlier if it has a high degree of proximity and its neighbors are several. The performance of this approach is illustrated through real datasets