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RE: st: correcting skewness of an indep variables
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"Cohen, Elan" <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: correcting skewness of an indep variables
Date
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:19:50 -0400
Maarten,
> Another reason for skewness is the presence of a spike ---
> that is, a single value that is very common. In that case
> you could consider adding the variable linearly + a dummy
> indicating whether or not an observations belongs to the
> spike group or not. We would do that, if think that that
Do you know of any references for this type of procedure? I run into data like this very often, and have never heard of this solution.
Thanks,
- Elan
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