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How to perform boxcox transformation on data in R tool [duplicate]
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Error in boxcox.default(y ~ x) : response variable must be positive
I want to perform box cox transformation on ...
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Log transform with 'zero' values [duplicate]
I am doing some explorative work on two large datasets. One from 2001 and one from 2018. The dataset consists of measured soil-parameters and it contains lots of zero's.
From the transformations ...
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How to handle data which contains 0 in a log transformation regression using R tool [duplicate]
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I want to perform log transformation regression in R tool but the problem is that I don't know how to handle ...
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How to preserve points near zero when taking logs? [duplicate]
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I have a question:
Suppose we have a data point $(0,10)$. We then convert to a log scale. Excel gets rid of this ...
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Data-transformation of data with some values = 0 [duplicate]
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I want to log-transform some of my data because the Levene's homogeneity of variances test rejected the null ...
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What is the best mathematical transformation for a variable with many zero values? [duplicate]
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I have a continuous variable that has many zeros values and is NOT normal, so I can't use parametric statistics on it....
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Natural logarithm transfomation and zeroes [duplicate]
I am using Stata 13 to estimate a simple regression. Given a rather positive skew of a few of my covariates, I figured to ln-transform the variables.
However, I have a substantial amount of zeroes in ...
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Log transform dependent variable [duplicate]
I have a continuous dependent variable which has a somewhat skewed distribution and hence I want to apply a log transform to it. But the problem is that the target variable can have negative values.
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How to adjust for a continious variable when the value 0 is distinctly different from the others? [duplicate]
Lets say I want to regress a variable on a covariate which has distinct value zero but the all other values are following some smooth function? It could be e.g. Years of beeing a mom (once you are a ...
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Appropriate to replace -inf with 0 after log transform? [duplicate]
I have a dataset of customers and their purchase data. Meaning, for each customer id, I have variables indicating number of unique products they bought, Number of online orders they placed, How many ...
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How small a quantity should be added to x to avoid taking the log of zero?
I have analysed my data as they are. Now I want to look at my analyses after taking the log of all variables. Many variables contain many zeros. Therefore I add a small quantity to avoid taking the ...
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Rigorous definition of an outlier?
People often talk about dealing with outliers in statistics. The thing that bothers me about this is that, as far as I can tell, the definition of an outlier is completely subjective. For example, ...
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Regression: Transforming Variables
When transforming variables, do you have to use all of the same transformation? For example, can I pick and choose differently transformed variables, as in:
Let, $x_1,x_2,x_3$ be age, length of ...
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What other normalizing transformations are commonly used beyond the common ones like square root, log, etc.?
In the analysis of test scores (e.g., in Education or Psychology), common analysis techniques often assume that data are normally distributed. However, perhaps more often than not, scores tend to ...
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How should you handle cell values equal to zero in a contingency table?
How should you deal with a cell value in a contingency table that is equal to zero in statistical calculations? (Note that such a value can be structural, i.e., it must be zero by definition, or ...
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