Re: TRANSFORMATION OF IVS and DVs with reflection - multiple linear regression

Posted by Bruce Weaver on Nov 14, 2016; 11:19pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/TRANSFORMATION-OF-IVS-and-DVs-with-reflection-multiple-linear-regression-tp5733454p5733465.html

Okay.  Did you mean binary logistic regression?  I ask, because you haven't actually said so.  You've only said it was not ordinal logistic regression.  It could be you meant multinomial logistic regression.  My point is that you're being rather stingy with information about the problem.

I asked what the variables actually are because knowing what they are might be helpful to someone who is trying to help you.  E.g., some types of variables suggest certain transformations.  Depending on what the variables are, someone might have suggested something other than taking square roots and reflecting.  

HTH.

researcher wrote

No I really didn't mean ordinal logistic regression . And I am not sure that it matters for the purposes of this question, what the variables were? My question is about how, in multiple linear regression,  to interpret the beta values of IVs when the DV has been transformed using refection and SQRT.