TY - JOUR AU - Masoud, Fawaz A.M. AU - Al- Zoubi, Moh'd B. AU - Salah, Imad AU - Al-Dahoud, Ali PY - 2008 TI - Fast Algorithms for Outlier Detection JF - Journal of Computer Science VL - 4 IS - 2 DO - 10.3844/jcssp.2008.129.132 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2008.129.132 AB - Finding fast algorithms to detect outliers (as unusual objects) by their distance to neighboring objects is a big desire. Two algorithms were proposed to detect outliers quickly. The first was based on the Partial Distance (PD) algorithm and the second was an improved version of the PD algorithm. It was found that the proposed algorithms reduced the number of distance calculations compared to the nested-loop method.