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| Oct 16, 2018 at 11:21 | comment | added | BigBendRegion | Echoing Carlo's comment: if you are interested in a population total (e.g., in audit sampling), then you are interested in the mean, period. If makes no difference how skewed or outlier-prone the distribution is, you just have to deal with it. You can't Winsorize, trim, otherwise remove outliers, or log transform. Stratification can help greatly; in the case of extreme outliers, those should be made as strata unto themselves. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 7:13 | history | answered | Carlo Lazzaro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |