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RE: st: ladder question


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: ladder question
Date   Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:02:57 -0000

As David implies, some information about 
the variable in question, e.g. the 
output of -summarize, detail-, would help 
diagnosis here. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

David Jacobs
 
> No I don't have a clue.  Sometimes when a 
> variable has zero or negative values, "gladder" 
> gives you half of the the graphs but I dunno if 
> ladder does this.  That's an idea. Try the 
> command "gladder [variable name]" instead.

Margaret Gassanov 
 
> >I have a variable that is right-skewed.  I used 
> >the -ladder- command to see suggested 
> >transformations.  However, no transformations 
> >appeared in the output.  I'm guessing that this 
> >does not mean that the raw form is better, 
> >because there is an option for "raw" in the list.

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