Fundamentals of Robust Machine Learning: Handling Outliers and Anomalies in Data Science

An essential guide for tackling outliers and anomalies in machine learning and data science.

In recent years, machine learning (ML) has transformed virtually every area of research and technology, becoming one of the key tools for data scientists. Robust machine learning is a new approach to handling outliers in datasets, which is an often-overlooked aspect of data science. Ignoring outliers can lead to bad business decisions, wrong medical diagnoses, reaching the wrong conclusions or incorrectly assessing feature importance, just to name a few.

Fundamentals of Robust Machine Learning offers a thorough but accessible overview of this subject by focusing on how to properly handle outliers and anomalies in datasets. There are two main approaches described in the book: using outlier-tolerant ML tools, or removing outliers before using conventional tools. Balancing theoretical foundations with practical Python code, it provides all the necessary skills to enhance the accuracy, stability and reliability of ML models.

Fundamentals of Robust Machine Learning readers will also find:

• A blend of robust statistics and machine learning principles
• Detailed discussion of a wide range of robust machine learning methodologies, from robust clustering, regression and classification, to neural networks and anomaly detection
• Python code with immediate application to data science problems

Fundamentals of Robust Machine Learning is ideal for undergraduate or graduate students in data science, machine learning, and related fields, as well as for professionals in the field looking to enhance their understanding of building models in the presence of outliers.

Resve Saleh, (PhD, UC Berkeley) is a Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He worked for a decade as a professor at the University of Illinois and as a visiting professor at Stanford University. He was Founder and Chairman of Simplex Solutions, Inc., which went public in 2001. He is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Sohaib Majzoub, (PhD, University of British Columbia) is an Associate Professor at the University of Sharjah, UAE. He also taught at the American University in Dubai, UAE and at King Saud University, KSA, and a visiting professor at Delft Technical University in The Netherlands. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

A. K. MD. Ehsanes Saleh, (PhD, University of Western Ontario) is a Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He also taught as Simon Fraser University, the University of Toronto, and Stanford University. He is a Fellow of IMS, ASA and an Honorary Member of SSC, Canada.