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udontneedmynameITS-632 Intro to Data Mining
Dr. Patrick Haney
Dept. of Information Technology &
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of the Cumberlands
Chapter 10 Assignment
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Data Mining “Anomaly Detection” Assignment
Answer the following questions. Please ensure to use the Author, YYYY APA citations with any content brought into the assignment.
1. What are Anomalies/Outliers? And what are some variants of Anomaly/Outlier Detection Problems?
2. What are some Challenges and Work Assumptions of Anomaly Detection?
3. Explain the Nearest-Neighbor Based Approach and the different ways to Define Outliers.
4. Explain the Density-based: LOF Approach.
5. Provide the General Steps and Types of Anomaly Detection Schemes.