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||||||<20% style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> '''F''' ||<30% style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> '''F^-1''' ||<50% style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> '''Variance F^-1''' ||
||||||<20% style="TEXT-ALIGN: top"> Ln(m) ||<30% style="TEXT-ALIGN: top"> e^m ||<50% style="TEXT-ALIGN: top"> (e^2m s^2) /n ||

It is sometimes necessary to transform data to, for example, downweight the influence of outliers, prior to performing any analysis. The reciprocal of reaction times is used for this purpose.

A transformed mean, m, with variance s2 on a sample of size, n, has a backtransformed variance (ie on the original scale) given below.

F

F-1''' ||<50% style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> '''Variance F-1

Ln(m)

em ||<50% style="TEXT-ALIGN: top"> (e2m s^2) /n

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