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From | Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: van der Waerden transformation |
Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:11:08 -0500 |
Isn't the van der Waerden transformation just inverse_normal(rank/(N +1)) ? sysuse auto,clear egen ranks = rank(price) gen waerden = invnormal(rank/(74+1)) Scott On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Sofia Ramiro <sofiaramiro@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to perform a transformation of my skewed variable according to the van der Waerden technique, but I do not discover how to do it with Stata. Can you please help me? Is there any command/set of commands to easily do it? > > thank you very much > > best regards, > Sofia Ramiro * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/