Tag: distribution

How to Transform a Skewed Distribution to a Uniform Distribution

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This post demonstrates how to rank data and how to place these ranks into roughly equal groups. There are certain variables, such as annual salary, that are highly skewed. There are many who earn between $50,00 and $150,000, but some who earn millions or hundreds of millions of dollars a […]

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An analytic transform for cantankerous data

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When using ordinary least squares regression (OLS), if your response or dependent attribute isn’t close to a normal distribution, your analysis is going to be affected and typically not in a good way. The farther away your input data is from normality, the greater the impact on your model will […]

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