• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.507-521
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• 2021

Detecting outliers among high-dimensional data encounters a challenging problem of screening the variables since relevant information is often contained in only a few of the variables. Otherwise, when a number of irrelevant variables are included in the data, the distances between all observations tend to become similar which leads to making the degree of outlierness of all observations alike. The subspace outlier detection method overcomes the problem by measuring the degree of outlierness of the observation based on the relevant subsets of the entire variables. In this paper, we survey recent subspace outlier detection techniques, classifying them into three major types according to the subspace selection method. And we summarize the techniques of each type based on how to select the relevant subspaces and how to measure the degree of outlierness. In addition, we introduce some computing tools for implementing the subspace outlier detection techniques and present results from the simulation study and real data analysis.