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In statistics, a trimmed estimator is an estimator derived from another estimator by excluding some of the extreme values, a process called truncation. This is generally done to obtain a more robust statistic, and the extreme values are considered outliers. Trimmed estimators also often have higher efficiency for mixture distributions and heavy-tailed distributions than the corresponding untrimmed estimator, at the cost of lower efficiency for other distributions, such as the normal distribution. Given an estimator, the ''n''% trimmed version is obtained by discarding the ''n''% lowest and highest observations: it is a statistic on the ''middle'' of the data. For instance, the 5% trimmed mean is obtained by taking the mean of the 5% to 95% range. In some cases a trimmed estimator discards a fixed number of points (such as maximum and minimum) instead of a percentage. ==Examples== The median is the most trimmed statistic (nominally 50%), as it discards all but the most central data, and equals the fully trimmed mean – or indeed fully trimmed mid-range, or (for odd size data sets) the fully trimmed maximum or minimum. Likewise, no degree of trimming has any effect on the median – a trimmed median is the median – because trimming always excludes an equal number of the lowest and highest values. Quantiles can be thought of as trimmed maxima or minima: for instance, the 5th percentile is the 5% trimmed minimum. Trimmed estimators used to estimate a location parameter include: * Trimmed mean * Modified mean, discarding the minimum and maximum values * Interquartile mean, the 25% trimmed mean * Midhinge, the 25% trimmed mid-range Trimmed estimators used to estimate a scale parameter include: * Interquartile range, the 25% trimmed range * Interdecile range, the 10% trimmed range Trimmed estimators which only involve linear combinations of points are examples of L-estimators. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「trimmed estimator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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