ECONOMICS|economic analysis|statistics
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- logarithmic transformation | variance-stabilising logarithmic transformation
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- Definition transformation of a variable x to a new variable y by some such relation as y = a + b log(x-c) Reference Kendall & Buckland, Dictionary of Statistical Terms, 1982
- Comment There are a number of contexts in which such transformations are useful in statistics, e.g. to normalise a frequency function, to stabilise a variance, and to reduce a curvilinear to a linear relationship in regression or probit analysis.