Ladder of powers transformations

 

Menu location: Data_Transformations_Ladder of Powers.

 

This function provides a series of transformations that have increasing power to pull in the right hand tail of a distribution. The ladder consists of:

 

1/x²

reciprocal of square (power -2)

1/x

reciprocal (power -1)

ln(x)

natural logarithm

square root (power 0.5)

square (power 2)

 

For more information see "transforming data".