An Improved Method of Outlier Detection Based on Frequent Pattern

Outlier detection is an interesting data mining task, which detects rare events. This paper focuses on the method of outlier detection based on frequent pattern (FP method for short). First we analyze the drawback of this method, and then an improved method (LFP method for short) has been presented. Finally, we evaluate the two methods by using several datasets and the experiment results show that LFP method outperforms FP method.