Talk:flier

Use in statistics

I've been looking at box plots in programming, and have run into the term 'flier' several times, apparently meaning 'outlier' or otherwise 'point lying beyond the whisker of a box plot'. See [1] and [2] for references in documentation, or even [3] where the author says "The fliers represent outliers". There don't seem to be a great many attestations of this sense, but the brazenness with which these authors have used it suggests it sees regular use. I would love anyone's thoughts on whether this sense is worth adding to the page. Lasmisme^ (talk) 04:16, 5 August 2024 (UTC)