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Re: st: van der Waerden transformation
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"Joseph Coveney" <[email protected]> 
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Re: st: van der Waerden transformation 
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Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:56:52 +0900 
Maarten Buis wrote (excerpted):
I would be interested to hear if someone knows of an application where
this transformation would make some sense. I cannot imagine one, but
that may just be due to my lack of imagination.
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One is the "van der Waerden test", which you can Google in order to find out
more about its putative advantages.  You can do do this test using the
user-written command -emh- (downloadable from SSC) with the
-transformation(vdw)- option.
Joseph Coveney
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