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Dear Everyone!

I am having a hard time transforming some negatively skewed variables for my Msc Thesis. I have tried several transformation (such as square root, log10, inverse, reflect and square root, reflect and Log10 and reflect and inverse), but none of these seem to working. I also tried different values for K (=largest possible value of scale +1), but again no appropriate sig for the kolmogorov-smirnov statistic.

I keep on getting significance values around 0.013, (with 0.017 being the 'best' until now).

For the remainder of the data analysis i planned to use correlations and multiple regression, which apparently are not suitable for non-normal distributed variables.

Does anyone know how to fix this? What are transformations are there which I can still try?

Also, for correlations and multiple regression I am wondering whether both, my dependent variable and independent variable have to be normally distributed or only my DV? (I am having problems with both)

I have attached the histogram, such that the distribution is visible as well as the tests for normality.

I really really appreciate your help, and if its in Dutch, it doesnt matter! any answer is highly welcome,

thanks a lot!!!

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