Applications of Outlier Analysis

Abstract

Outlier analysis has numerous applications in a wide variety of domains such as the financial industry, quality control, fault diagnosis, intrusion detection, web analytics, and medical diagnosis. The applications of outlier analysis are so diverse, that it is impossible to cover all possibilities exhaustively in a single chapter. Therefore, the goal of this chapter is cover a wide spectrum of problem domains at a higher level, and how they map to the different techniques covered in this book.