Novelty Detection with Local Outlier Factor

Detecting whether a new data is an outlier or not

Cornellius Yudha Wijaya
Towards Data Science
7 min readJun 20, 2020

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Novelty detection might be a more rare term to be heard by some people compared to outlier detection. If outlier detection aims to find the anomaly or significantly different data in a dataset, novelty detection aims to determine new or unknown data to be an outlier or not.

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