Re:New method identifies the root causes of statistical outl...
by nl on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:52PM
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> But I would argue that's not really a case of an outlier,
From the point of view of the data it is definitely an outlier.
> that's a mixture distribution because the underlying identifying feature (baseball or rocket) is missing.
This is the point of the paper. They literally say in the blog post summary:
To attribute the outlier event to a variable, we ask the counterfactual question “Would the event not have been an outlier had the causal mechanism of that variable been normal?”
From the point of view of the data it is definitely an outlier.
> that's a mixture distribution because the underlying identifying feature (baseball or rocket) is missing.
This is the point of the paper. They literally say in the blog post summary:
To attribute the outlier event to a variable, we ask the counterfactual question “Would the event not have been an outlier had the causal mechanism of that variable been normal?”