[R] data transformation

[Richard M. Heiberger]

this might work for you

newy <- sign(oldy)*f(abs(oldy))

where f() is a monotonic transformation, perhaps a power function.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 11:08 AM Adrian Johnson
<oriolebaltimore using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I apologize,  I forgot to mention another key operation.
> in my matrix -1 to <0 has a different meaning while values between >0
> to 1 has a different set of meaning.  So If I do logit transformation
> some of the positives becomes negative (values < 0.5 etc.). In such
> case, the resulting transformed matrix is incorrect.
>
> I want to transform numbers ranging from -1 to <0   and numbers
> between >0 and 1 independently.
>
> Thanks
>
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