Outlier
"Tuesday night will also send a chill through Republicans ranks as lawmakers consider whether the race [Alabama Senate race] was an outlier or, along with the last month's Virginia's elections, could signal a building anti-Trump backlash that could sweep them away next fall." (CNN.)
Does "an outlier" mean 'anomalous Senat race in Alabama' (a sort of statistical aberration) in the context above?
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anonymous outlier ... statistical aberration Exactly. An outlier is disregarded as uninformative when attempting to find a rational pattern in a data set.
- anonymous outlier ...
- statistical aberration Exactly.
- An outlier is disregarded as uninformative when attempting to find a rational pattern in a data set.
- CJ
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anonymousoutlier ... statistical aberration
Exactly. An outlier is disregarded as uninformative when attempting to find a rational pattern in a data set.
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