Hi All; The following question is directed more to statisticians on the list. Suppose I have a normal random variable. Is there a transformation that I can apply so that the new variable is slightly positively skewed. I greatly appreciate your help. Ashraf
'skewing' a normal random variable
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Ashraf Chaudhary wrote:
Hi All; The following question is directed more to statisticians on the list. Suppose I have a normal random variable. Is there a transformation that I can apply so that the new variable is slightly positively skewed. I greatly appreciate your help. Ashraf
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look at the sn package on CRAN --- skew normal distributions, m
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