Thanks Scott, That does help to clarify things.
So if a covariate is highly skewed, extreme values will be more influential. And this can be reduced through a transformation (which can be justified) or through other techniques (e.g. bootstrapping). Cheers Sam -- View this message in context: http://r-sig-ecology.471788.n2.nabble.com/Standardising-and-transformation-of-explanatory-independent-predictor-variables-for-multiple-regresss-tp7579048p7579052.html Sent from the r-sig-ecology mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
