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Mathematical re-expression, often nonlinear, of data values. Data are often transformed either to meet the assumptions of a statistical model or to make the results of an analysis more interpretable.

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Compare models with AIC when log transforming predictors but keeping the response variable e...

Can I compare say two models where one have predictor P and the other have log(P) all else being equal? I have found posts on the topic but I can only decipher from those that you cannot transform the …
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The log of a predictor and polynomial regression

I’m working with primate brain data as a predictor in regression models. In the primate brain literature it is custom to log brain data, but it is unclear to me why. It has been argued that since one …
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