Question

Often, anomalous objects are known as _____, since on a scatter plot of the data, they lie far away from other data points.

Answer 1

outliers

Explanation:

An outlier is a data point that is significantly different from other observations. An outlier might be due to inconsistency in measurements, or due to an error introduced into the experiment. Outliers cans lie extremely high or low of other observation in statistics, and they usually create a big problem for proper analysis.