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  1. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.stat-l
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!csd.unb.ca!UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA
  3. From: WRK0000 <WRK0@UNB.CA>
  4. Subject: transformations
  5. Message-ID: <21NOV92.13060038.0080@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>
  6. Lines: 17
  7. Sender: usenet@UNB.CA
  8. Organization: The University of New Brunswick
  9. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:05:33 GMT
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  11. Of course sometimes the transformed figures are accepted
  12. without much question as as natural as the original, and
  13. sometimes more natural.
  14.  
  15.    variable             context          transformation
  16.    -------------        --------------   ---------------------
  17.    pH                   chemistry        logarithm
  18.    decibel              acoustics        logarithm
  19.    standard deviation   statistics       square root of variance
  20.    conductivity         electricity      reciprocal of resistance
  21.    correlation          statistics       cosine
  22.    slope                various          cosine
  23.    probit               dosage-response  inverse normal
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  26. Bill Knight / University of New Brunswick / Canada
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