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Re: How to handle continuous variable in constructing the index [message #8749 is a reply to message #8707] Sat, 12 December 2015 03:46 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
gyamada is currently offline  gyamada
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Thank you, Dr. Rutstein, for your information!

Following up one of your comments on skewed data (number of farm animals and land area), I would like to know what type of consideration could be more commonly thought. Could log transformation or truncation at certain value/percentile could be an option?

Sincerely,

Goro
 
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