Combining different normality transformations for Fisher's method I have 2 data sets that are applicable to Fisher's method. One has a p-value of 0.07 and the other 0.15. Neither sets were normal or homoscedastic. The first satisfied the ANOVA assumptions only with an arcsine transformation, while the second only with a log transformation. Is it possible to combine the p-values given that their transformations were different?
 A: The null hypothesis tested by Fisher's method is that all of the null hypotheses underlying the p-values are true (against the alternative that at least one of those null hypotheses is false). So, as far as the method is concerned, one could combine p-values that test completely different phenomena (e.g., whether the correlation is 0 in this sample, whether the mean is equal to 100 in that sample, and so on). So, you can certainly use Fisher's method to test the 'joint' null hypothesis of any number of tests, whether they bear on the same phenomenon or not.
Now I suspect that in your case you are basically testing the same thing twice, but different transformations were needed to fulfill model assumptions. Again, that's fine as far as the method is concerned.
Some people may object to this, because they consider Fisher's method as a way of pooling information about the underlying effects from multiple studies and if different transformations are used, then this also changes the nature of the underlying effects and then one cannot combine them. But that's a misunderstanding of what the method is actually testing.
