Re: st: How to get rid of outliers

[Xixi Lin <winnielxx@gmail.com>]

Hi Seigiy,

Thank you so much for your patient reply. I tried it earlier today and
it gives"invalid syntax" after keep commend. Then, this time I rerun
with 99% percent, and it works. How amazing! Thank you so much. ^_^

Best,
Xixi Lin

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xixi,
>
> statalist FAQ in 3.1 suggests to "Explain what doesn’t work".
>
> The code I posted removes the persons from NLSW88 dataset shipped with
> Stata that report very low or very high wages, compared to the other
> people in this dataset (2.5% of low earners and 2.5% of high earners).
> It also plots the distribution graph, to give you an idea of what it
> is going to do (keep only people between the two red lines, remove the
> persons in the tails).
>
> The code is here:
> do http://radyakin.org/statalist/2013102401/remove_outliers.do
>
> The picture is here:
> http://radyakin.org/statalist/2013102401/wage_cut.png
>
> The program drops 112 persons, which is roughly .0498 of the sample.
> (you can only drop a _whole_ person, so that is not exactly 0.05).
>
> Now, what "seems to be not working" mean?
>
> Best, Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Xixi Lin <winnielxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sergiy,
>>
>> I tried your code, but it seems to be not working.
>>
>> Best,
>> Xixi Lin
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Sergiy Radyakin
>> <serjradyakin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Xixi, listen to Nick's advice. But if you still want to drop them, here is how:
>>>
>>> sysuse nlsw88
>>> centile wage, c(2.5 97.5)
>>> local l=r(c_1)
>>> local r=r(c_2)
>>> kdensity wage, xline(`l') xline(`r')
>>> keep if inrange(wage, `l', `r')
>>>
>>> Best, Sergiy Radyakin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> If the question is simple
>>>>
>>>> How to get rid of outliers?
>>>>
>>>> then there is a good simple long answer
>>>>
>>>> Don't (usually).
>>>>
>>>> and a good simple short answer
>>>>
>>>> Don't.
>>>>
>>>> There are of course even longer answers in many places. The thread starting at
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-06/msg00185.html
>>>>
>>>> throws a variety of lights on outliers and immodesty leads me to recommend
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-06/msg00239.html
>>>>
>>>> as particularly long-winded, and respect leads me to nominate Richard
>>>> Goldstein's concise remark
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-06/msg00240.html
>>>>
>>>> as most penetrating of all. But the whole thread is worth looking through
>>>>
>>>> One rather long footnote to the thread is provided by
>>>>
>>>> SJ-13-3 st0313  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Speaking Stata: Trimming to taste
>>>>         (help trimmean, trimplot if installed)  . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
>>>>         Q3/13   SJ 13(3):640--666
>>>>         tutorial review of trimmed means, emphasizing the scope for
>>>>         trimming to varying degrees in describing and exploring data
>>>>
>>>> but the best Stata incantation of all is likely to be -glm-.
>>>>
>>>> More generally, modify your model so that outliers are accommodated.
>>>>
>>>> Don't modify your data because they are awkward to analyse.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24 October 2013 15:31, Xixi Lin <winnielxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I know it seems to be a very simple question. But I still wanna ask
>>>>> how to keep 99%(95%) of the data? Is it just chop off 2 standard
>>>>> deviations? How to code it then?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Xixi Lin
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