winsorizing data failure

[Guest]

Hi all,

When I try to winsorize my data for one of my columns using this command:
- winsor wx_patent cuts(1 99) suffix(_new) I receive an error that says: factor-variable and time-series operators not allowed. but indeed wx_patent is a 'float object' it is neither a factor variable nor a time-series operator. Also, the command works fine for all my other columns. Any idea what's going on here?

[Ken Chui]

Is it winsor or winsor2? My guess is you missed the comma before cuts.

[Guest]

Is it winsor or winsor2? My guess is you missed the comma before cuts.

Awesome. That solved the problem. Thank you so much.

[Nick Cox]

To be clear, as Ken Chui pointed out, winsor2 from SSC is the command that supports a cuts() option. Its author acknowledges ideas from winsor on SSC, which is mine.

I wrote winsor originally in 1998 because someone asked for some Winsorizing code. I see most point in its use just before calculating a winsorized mean or variance. But its use for taming outliers is further than I ever want to take it.