onlier
nounEtymology From on- + lier.
1
Something that lies very close to the expected position.
- Butte ( onlier )1992, Helmut Blume, Andrew Goudie, Rita Gardner, Colour Atlas of the Surface Forms of the Earth, page 71:
- Such outcrops of younger rock, entirely surrounded by older beds, are called outliers or onliers.1997, Ruud Weijermars, Structural Geology and Map Interpretation, page 80:
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- Although influential cases thus have extreme values on one or more of the variables, they can be onliers rather than outliers.2014, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Family Policy Outcomes, page 191:
- Regression analysts, insofar as they focus on a simple onlier/outlier distinction (where onlier refers to a low-residual case and outlier to a high-residual case), will tend to miss such causal complexity.2015, J. Glaesser, Young People's Educational Careers in England and Germany: