Local Outlier Factor: A way to Detect Outliers
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7 min readSep 21, 2020
As we Know, Outliers are patterns in the datasets that do not conform to the expected behaviour. It may appear in the dataset due to low-quality measurements, malfunctioning equipment, manual error e.t.c. The presence of outliers may create problems in building a good machine learning model.
There are mainly two types of Outliers:
