🎓 Methods
Statistical Methods
Z-score: Distance from the mean in standard deviations.
IQR: Interquartile Range for outliers.
Grubbs' Test: Statistical test for outliers.
Isolation Forest
Concept: Isolates anomalies through random splits.
Advantages: Effective, scalable.
Applications: High-dimensional data.
Autoencoders
Concept: Reconstruction error for anomaly detection.
Advantages: For complex patterns.
Applications: Deep learning for anomaly detection.
🔧 Advanced Methods
One-Class SVM
Concept: Finds the boundary of normal data.
Advantages: For non-linear patterns.
Applications: Novelty detection.
Local Outlier Factor (LOF)
Concept: Local density for outlier detection.
Advantages: For local outliers.
Applications: Clustering-based detection.
DBSCAN
Concept: Clustering with noise detection.
Advantages: Detects outliers as noise.
Applications: Density-based detection.
📚 Practical Examples
Example 1: Isolation Forest for fraud detection
Data: Prepare transaction data.
Isolation Forest: Train Isolation Forest.
Detection: Detect anomalous transactions.
Validation: Verify against known fraud cases.
Example 2: Autoencoder for anomaly detection
Training: Train autoencoder on normal data.
Threshold: Determine the threshold for reconstruction error.
Detection: Detect anomalies through high error.
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Anomaly Detection: identification of anomalies
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