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Re: st: Log Transformation of Variable
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Nick cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Log Transformation of Variable
Date
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:43:17 +0000
The usual flavours of log transfomations just use -ln()- or -log10()-.
Why do you think you need something different?
Nick
On 26 Feb 2011, at 17:04, Melissa King <[email protected]> wrote:
Good Morning,
I have a dataset that I would like to transform by multiplying the
dependent variables by -log - e, or in other words, the negative
logarithm minus its base. Despite searching this forum and the
Internet, I have been unable to find any information on how to "tell"
Stata to do this. I am able to transform my variable by multiplying it
by negative log:
generate transformed_dep_variable = -log(dep_variable)
However, Stata errors out when I try to communicate -(log+e), because
it no longer recognizes log as a function when I type this in:
generate transformed_dep_variable = -(log+e)(dep_variable)
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