Tukey's Bulging Rule:
Why Use It, and What to Do When It Fails
Why Use It, and What to Do When It Fails
Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
"A very effective and simple technique for straightening data is re-expressing the variables, which uses Turkey’s Ladder of Powers and the Bulging Rule. I present the details of the technique (as found in Ratner, B., Statistical Modeling and Analysis for Database Marketing: Effective Techniques for Mining Big Data, pages 39 - 41), CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2006) Then, I discuss:
- Why use Tukey's Bulging Rule; namely, the importance of straight-line relationships or straight data.
- When Tukey’s Bulging Rules fails; namely, which data conditions are not met.
- What to do when Tukey's Bulging Rule fails to straighten the data; namely, I offer a (nonstatistical) data mining method that has no data conditions to satisfy.
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