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EXTREME WEIGHT TRIMMING [1 record]

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Record 1 2024-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Scientific Research
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
CONT

The strategy of extreme weight trimming should be improved. The weight distribution may include some extreme values that should be trimmed before the actual computation of the estimates. Weight trimming will generally increase the potential for a bias in the estimate while artificially decreasing the sampling variance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Recherche scientifique
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
CONT

Il s'agit donc de la méthode classique, sans particularité méthodologique, hormis une troncature des poids extrêmes, avant calage.

Spanish

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