The Importance of Features for Statistical Anomaly Detection

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Authors: 

David Goldberg and Yinan Shan, eBay

Abstract: 

The theme of this paper is that anomaly detection splits into two parts: developing the right features, and then feeding these features into a statistical system that detects anomalies in the features. Most literature on anomaly detection focuses on the second part. Our goal is to illustrate the importance of the first part. We do this with two real-life examples of anomaly detectors in use at eBay.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {190605,
author = {David Goldberg and Yinan Shan},
title = {The Importance of Features for Statistical Anomaly Detection},
booktitle = {7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 15)},
year = {2015},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud15/workshop-program/presentation/goldberg},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}
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