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Re: st: van der Waerden transformation
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: van der Waerden transformation
Date
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:11:08 -0500
Isn't the van der Waerden transformation just inverse_normal(rank/(N +1)) ?
sysuse auto,clear
egen ranks = rank(price)
gen waerden = invnormal(rank/(74+1))
Scott
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Sofia Ramiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to perform a transformation of my skewed variable according to the van der Waerden technique, but I do not discover how to do it with Stata. Can you please help me? Is there any command/set of commands to easily do it?
>
> thank you very much
>
> best regards,
> Sofia Ramiro
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