DescTools (version 0.99.16)

Trim: Trim a Vector

Description

Clean data by means of trimming, i.e., by omitting outlying observations.

Usage

Trim(x, trim = 0.1, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector to be trimmed.

trim

the fraction (0 to 0.5) of observations to be trimmed from each end of x. Values of trim outside that range (and < 1) are taken as the nearest endpoint. If trim is set to a value >1 it's interpreted as the number of elements to be cut off

na.rm

a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

Value

• The trimmed vector x. The result vector will be sorted (as sort.int is used within the function).

Details

A symmetrically trimmed vector x with a fraction of trim observations (resp. the given number) deleted from each end will be returned. If trim is set to a value >0.5 or to an integer value > n/2 then the result will be NA.

See Also

Winsorize

Examples

## generate data
set.seed(1234)     # for reproducibility
x <- rnorm(10)     # standard normal
x[1] <- x[1] * 10  # introduce outlier

## Trim data
x
Trim(x, trim=0.1)

## Trim fixed number, say cut the 3 extreme elements from each end
Trim(x, trim=3)