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To edstat-l:

Despite complaints about excess stuff saved into replies, I include
these lost mail headers for diagnostic purposes.  This message is
intended for individuals on edstat-l but is being posted generally
because mailing to the individuals failed. If you posted something
about transformations or resampling, please read this. (Or read it if
you are interested in those subjects, there is nothing personal or
incriminating here.) Perhaps someone more expert in email can help us
figure out how to communicate better.

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There were several presentations regarding this at the ASA meeting in .
I looked at the software some time ago. It could not replace Minitab, so I'd
be teaching TWO software packages. Too much overhead. Also, as I recall it
was not very good about saving data or using existing data and so would
require a lot of unneccessary typing. Finally, it is a programming language,
which I thought was much more difficult to learn than Minitab.

However, I know one of the Wonnacott brothers has been very pleased with it.

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I don't know that it would answer all your questions, but the simplist
introduction to transformations that I know of is in Siegel's
_Statistics and Data Analysis: An Introduction_. Chapter 9 is devoted
entirely to transformations. They are applied in Chapters 16 and 17,
among others. I use this book in a gen. ed. course often taken by
freshpersons. A classic reference is M. S. Bartlett, "The Use of
Transformations" which I have in a collection edited by J. A. Steger
and titled _Readings in Statistics for the Behavioral Scientist_.
Uncharacteristically, Steger does not list the source for this
particular article, but I'd guess the '30's or '40's. There is nothing
intrinsically dishonest about transforming data, but like any other
technique it can be abused as well as used.

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