Week13_Ch.10Assignment.docx

ITS-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

[Your Name Here]

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.