Log transformation: Application and interpretation in biomedical research

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 230-239

  Feng, Changyong ^a   Wang, Hongyue ^a   Lu, Naiji ^a   Tu, Xin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric mean; Hypothesis testing; Skewness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOMETRIC MEAN; LOG TRANSFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84871292088     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5486     Document Type: Article

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