Akihito:
I am not surprised that the middel observation (median) moves if you remove the bottom 5% and the
top 10% of a distribution. The problem is how to justify it.
HTH,
Maarten
--- Akihito Tokuhara <[email protected]> wrote:
> The fact is, when I test-trim the dataset, the median actually
> moves away from zero.
--- Akihito Tokuhara <[email protected]> previously wrote:
>> My way if to cut off completely all obs having values less than p5 and all
>> those having values bigger than p90.
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