On 8/23/2006 8:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > This problem may be very easy, but I can't think of how to do it. I have > constructed histograms of various variables in my dataset. Some of them are > negatively skewed, and hence need data transformations applied. I know that > you first need to reflect the negatively skewed data and then apply another > transformation such as log, square root etc to bring it towards normailty. > How is it that I reflect data in R? I'm sorry if this seems a very simple > task, I think it involves going back to Maths GCSE and relearning reflection, > rotation, translation etc! I have searched the internet, but cannot come up > with anything useful on how to reflect data. > >> hist(Lsoc) #how do I reflect Lsoc in R?
Reflected <- -Lsoc will reflect about zero. > I am grateful for any help regarding this matter, it is just a very small > part of my analysis and doesn't seem worth agonising hours over. I will > probably kick myself when someone tells me the answer! Please don't kick yourself :-) Duncan Murdoch > > Thank you very much, > > Zoe > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
