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------------------- help for tmeans -------------------

Trimmed, winsorized means & Huber M-estimator ---------------------------------------------

tmeans varlist, trim(n) Description -----------

tmeans computes trimmed, winsorized and untrimmed statistics and the Huber M-estimator for the variables in varlist.

Options ------- trim indicates the proportion of cases to trim from each end of the distribution (default = 0.2). k the constant used for the M-estimator (default = 1.28).

Examples --------

. tmeans write . tmeans write, trim(.1)

Author ------

Philip B. Ender UCLA Department of Education UCLA Academic Technology Services enderatucla.edu