Question: Assume that you have concluded to use a log transformation on your data to model a relationship. However, on investigating the dataset, you found negative

Assume that you have concluded to use a log transformation on your data to model a relationship. However, on investigating the dataset, you found negative or zero values. How will you proceed?

A) Throw out the data points which are negative or zero

B) Use Log(x+1), where x is the variable you want to transform

C) Use log(x + c +1), where c is the absolute value of the most negative number

D) Use log(10 *x)

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