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A METHOD of dealing with non-normal frequency distributions consists of transforming the original variable in such a manner that the transformed variable has a normal distribution. Early writers on this topic were F. Y. Edgeworth and J. C. Kapteyn. In practice, the original law of distribution is unknown, and from our observations we have to choose the form, and estimate the parameters, of a suitable transformation.
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Cf. Kapteyn, J. C., and Van Uven, M. J., "Skew Frequency Curves in Biology and Statistics" (Groningen, 1916).
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KERRICH, J. Normalization of Frequency Functions. Nature 164, 1089 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641089a0
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