/outlier-detect

Code that implements the novel outlier detection algorithms from my Ph.D. dissertation.

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This repo no longer being maintained. Please use https://github.com/dimagi/outlier-detect/ instead

outlier-detect (http://github.com/benb111/outlier-detect) Ben Birnbaum (benjamin.birnbaum@gmail.com) Licensed under Apache (see LICENSE)

Python implementions of the Multinomial Model Algorithm (MMA) and the s-Value Algorithm (SVA), as described in

B. Birnbaum, B. DeRenzi, A. D. Flaxman, and N. Lesh. Automated quality control for mobile data collection. In DEV ’12, pages 1:1–1:10, 2012.

B. Birnbaum. Algorithmic approaches to detecting interviewer fabrication in surveys. Ph.D. Dissertation, Univeristy of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2012.

(See http://bbirnbaum.com/publications/ for PDF versions of these papers.)

To install: python setup.py install

Switch to the 'display' branch on git to use experimental visualization code in outlierdetect.