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This is a good point. yes three of the variables have skewed
distributions before I z-scored them. I can do the transformation before
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> Joche,
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> What are the distributions like for the four original measures? Perhaps one
> or more of them should be transformed before being standardized?
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> Hi,
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> I have creaed a composite variable using scores from four different
> measures. Thus, I z-scored the variables before creating the sum. My
> variable is highly skewed and is leptokurtotic. I wanted to transform
> the composite variable but cannot because the the values are not
> non-zero and run below zero. Is there a way I can get around this?
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> Thanks
> Joche
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