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This function provides a series of transformations that have increasing power to pull in the right hand tail of a distribution. The ladder consists of:
1/x² | reciprocal of square (power -2) |
1/x | reciprocal (power -1) |
ln(x) | natural logarithm |
x½ | square root (power 0.5) |
x² | square (power 2) |
For more information see "transforming data".
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