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Rearrangement Groups of Fractals
We construct rearrangement groups for edge replacement systems, an infinite
class of groups that generalize Richard Thompson's groups F, T, and V .
Rearrangement groups act by piecewise-defined homeomorphisms on many
self-similar topological spaces, among them the Vicsek fractal and many Julia
sets. We show that every rearrangement group acts properly on a locally finite
CAT(0) cubical complex, and we use this action to prove that certain
rearrangement groups are of type F infinity.Comment: 48 pages, 37 figure
A survey of outlier detection methodologies
Outlier detection has been used for centuries to detect and, where appropriate, remove anomalous observations from data. Outliers arise due to mechanical faults, changes in system behaviour, fraudulent behaviour, human error, instrument error or simply through natural deviations in populations. Their detection can identify system faults and fraud before they escalate with potentially catastrophic consequences. It can identify errors and remove their contaminating effect on the data set and as such to purify the data for processing. The original outlier detection methods were arbitrary but now, principled and systematic techniques are used, drawn from the full gamut of Computer Science and Statistics. In this paper, we introduce a survey of contemporary techniques for outlier detection. We identify their respective motivations and distinguish their advantages and disadvantages in a comparative review
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