As David implies, some information about
the variable in question, e.g. the
output of -summarize, detail-, would help
diagnosis here.
Nick
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David Jacobs
> No I don't have a clue. Sometimes when a
> variable has zero or negative values, "gladder"
> gives you half of the the graphs but I dunno if
> ladder does this. That's an idea. Try the
> command "gladder [variable name]" instead.
Margaret Gassanov
> >I have a variable that is right-skewed. I used
> >the -ladder- command to see suggested
> >transformations. However, no transformations
> >appeared in the output. I'm guessing that this
> >does not mean that the raw form is better,
> >because there is an option for "raw" in the list.
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