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Trimming and winsorization: A review

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Zusammenfassung

Dieser Artikel liefert einen Literaturüberblick für zwei robuste statistische Methoden — "trimming" und "Winsorization", welche zuerst vorgeschlagen wurden, um Lageparameter zu schätzen, später aber auf andere Schätz- und Testprobleme erweitert wurden. Die Anwendbarkeit der Methoden für normale und "long-tailed"-Verteilungen wird diskutiert.

Summary

This paper provides a literature review for robust statistical procedures — trimming and Winsorization — that were first proposed for estimating location, but were later extended to other estimation and testing problems. Performance of these techniques under normal and long-tailed distributions are discussed.

Résumé

Cet article fournit un revoir de la litterature pour deux procedures statistiques — "trimming" et Winsorization" — qui etaient, d’abord, proposees a estimer position, mais qui etaient plus tard etendues a d’autres problemes d’estimation et de verification. On discute le fonctionnement de ces techniques avec les distributions "normale" et "long-tailed".

Резюме

В Этой статье дан литературный обзор для двух статистических метод: «тримминга» и «винзоризейщн». Сначала они были выработаны только для оценки параметра положения а потом расщирились на другие проблемы оценки и проверки. Обсуждается применимость Этих метод для нормального распределения и распределения «лёнг-тайльд.

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Dixon, W.J., Yuen, K.K. Trimming and winsorization: A review. Statistische Hefte 15, 157–170 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922904

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