Multivariate Outlier Detection in Applied Data Analysis: Global, Local, Compositional and Cellwise Outliers

Outliers are encountered in all practical situations of data analysis, regardless of the discipline of application. However, the term outlier is not uniformly defined across all these fields since the differentiation between regular and irregular behaviour is naturally embedded in the subject area under consideration. Generalized approaches for outlier identification have to be modified to allow the diligent search for potential outliers....