Which Statement About Re-Expressing Data Is True

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which statement about re-expressing data is true?

• A) To make unimodal distribution that is skewed to the left more symmetric we should take the square root of the variable.
• B) Transforming data cannot make a scatterplot and residual plot less spread out.
• C) Transforming data is based only on the logarithmic function of the response variable.
• D) One goal of re-expressing may be to make the variability of the response variable more uniform.
• E) Re-expressing data by the logarithms should be used only when we want make the form of the scatterplot more nearly linear.

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