Rank-based inverse normal transformations are increasingly used, but are they merited?

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Published in Behav Genet on June 14, 2009

Authors

T Mark Beasley1, Stephen Erickson, David B Allison

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biostatistics, Section on Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ryals Public Health Building, Suite 327, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA. MBeasley@UAB.edu

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