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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 223 2 b Solution by
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Let . If at most observations are replaced arbitrarily, every order statistic retained between ranks and remains between the minimum and maximum of the unreplaced observations. The trimmed mean is therefore bounded as the replacement values diverge.
If more than observations are replaced by a common value tending to , at least one replacement remains after the largest observations are trimmed, and the trimmed mean tends to . The analogous construction tends to . Thus the largest fraction of arbitrary replacements for which boundedness is guaranteed isThis is the convention for the finite-sample replacement breakdown point used in the question; the alternative convention based on the smallest breaking fraction reports .
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