Timeline for Name of transformation that maps numbers outside of interval onto endpoints?
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 15:42 | vote | accept | ACNB | ||
| Jun 27, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | Nick Cox | Let's try to clamp down on clipping, then. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 15:06 | comment | added | whuber♦ | @Nick Hmm, I see the OP was not the person who added the winsorizing tag. I have rolled back that edit so this thread better reflects the original intentions. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 14:58 | history | edited | whuber♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 14:58 | comment | added | whuber♦ | @Nick Agreed. That is why I have not proposed that this operation actually is termed "Winsorizing." It looked useful to drag this concept into the discussion because it makes the applicability of the question to statistics a little more apparent. BTW, I have long preferred "clamping" for the name due to the overloading of "clipping" in related domains. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 14:54 | comment | added | Nick Cox | WInsorizing is pulling inwards for pre-specified fractions of the values in the tails of a sample according to chosen fractions (e.g. the highest and lowest 5%; in general, fractions could differ, so that either fraction could be zero). It's not about clipping according to a pre-specified value or values. While it remains true that definitions can be made wide sense and extended beyond their first use, I think clipping is the better term here. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 14:43 | history | edited | whuber♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 14:33 | history | answered | whuber♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |