Ladder of Powers Transforms

 

Menu location: Data_Transforming and Deriving_Common Transforms_Ladder of Powers.

 

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".