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Library: metrics
See also: adeind adeslp

Quantlet: trimper
Description: trims a given percentage of a (binned) data matrix

Usage: xt = trimper(x,perc)
Input:
x n x d matrix , the data matrix In the first row the values according to which the trimming should be done are expected. The second row should contain ; the frequency count for the values in the ; first row.
perc scalar , the percentage of data points which should be trimmed maximal
Output:
xt l x d matrix , the trimmed data matrix

Example:
library("metrics")
perc = 5
x = 1:100
x = x~matrix(rows(x),1)
xt = trimper(x,perc)
xt

Result:
trimmed (and binned) data matrix



Author: S. Sperlich, W. Stockmeyer, W. Haerdle, 19951111 license MD*Tech
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