June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
Content preview from 40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
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Using density-based anomaly detection
A density-based approach tries to find dense neighborhoods. The k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm can be used for this purpose. Abnormalities that are far away from the discovered dense neighborhoods are marked as anomalies.