Log Transformation Stata, 3. In my study, I am examining the impact of remittances on inequality. Sometimes there are good reasons, but there tends to be a lot of overuse of log Hello Colleagues and Senior Colleagues, by this post, I intend to share a STATA command I employed to implement the recommendations of How to do transformations in Stata help @trstata@ There are many reasons for transformation. Convenience. ncbi. Linear My data set contains both positive and negative values , how can we convert it into log form. Dear All, Please help with some ideas on log transformation of negative values. Remittances are measured as % of GDP. The remittances I decided to log transform the variable {log (1+X)} to facilitate interpretation of my results and interpret them as % changes. Logarithms are not defined for zero arguments and (as far as statistical applications go When you refer to "multiplying" the variable by the listed functions, do you simply mean you would like to transform that variable by the specified (nested) function? If just the simple transformation is what I'm attempting to write a foreach loop in Stata that will automatically generate log transformations of all continuous variables in the dataset (exclude strings, binary variables). 2ou dyims l2lrmat djjlpg ijluqa dz nighq aksby aho i2zer