winsorize

See also: Winsorize

English

Alternative forms

Winsorize
winsorise, Winsorise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

Named for the engineer-turned-biostatistician Charles P. Winsor (1895–1951), with -ize.

Verb

winsorize (third-person singular simple present winsorizes, present participle winsorizing, simple past and past participle winsorized)

(statistics) To transform statistics of a batch or sample by transforming extreme values.

Derived terms

winsorization