RE: When to do transformation of data?
From: "Hu, Chuanpu"
Subject: RE: [NMusers] When to do transformation of data?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:12:31 -0400
Leonid,
A few years ago I had a similar example, and I made exactly the same
conclusion as yours.
For your question, I do not think it is possible to link the additive +
exponential error to the log-transformed structure, because the former
allows negative Y's whereas the latter does not.
Chuanpu
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