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ArticleThe VLDB journal : very large data bases : a publication of the VLDB Endowment2022

A survey on outlier explanations.

Egawati Panjei, Le Gruenwald, Eleazar Leal, Christopher Nguyen, Shejuti Silvia

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Article in The VLDB journal : very large data bases : a publication of the VLDB Endowment, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  3. Evaluating robustly standardized explainable anomaly detection of implausible variables in cancer data.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025
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Egawati PanjeiSchool of Computer Science, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6681-7847
Le GruenwaldSchool of Computer Science, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5245-4747
Eleazar LealDepartment of Computer Science, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3055-1845
Christopher NguyenSchool of Computer Science, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK USA.
Shejuti SilviaSchool of Computer Science, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While many techniques for outlier detection have been proposed in the literature, the interpretation of detected outliers is often left to users. As a result, it is difficult for users to promptly take appropriate actions concerning the detected outliers. To lessen this difficulty, when outliers are identified, they should be presented together with their explanations. There are survey papers on outlier detection, but none exists for outlier explanations. To fill this gap, in this paper, we present a survey on outlier explanations in which meaningful knowledge is mined from anomalous data to explain them. We define different types of outlier explanations and discuss the challenges in generating each type. We review the existing outlier explanation techniques and discuss how they address the challenges. We also discuss the applications of outlier explanations and review the existing methods used to evaluate outlier explanations. Furthermore, we discuss possible future research directions.

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Anomaly analysisOutlier descriptionOutlier detectionOutlier explanationOutlier interpretation

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PMID35095253
PMCPMC8789379

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