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Renate1235

Post subject: How to make variables look normally distributed

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:50 pm

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Hi everyone,

I am doing a regression analysis and I have a question considering the two variables below. We have to test the variables and see if they are normally distributed. As you can see here, the variables are not normally distributed.

My question is: is there any transformation which can help to make these variables look normally distributed?

Thanks in advance.

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statman

Post subject: Re: How to make variables look normally distributed

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:52 pm

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Regression doesn't really care about the variable distribution, it concern relates to the normality of the DVs residuals

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