[R] regressing on variable with heavy tails

Jeroen Ooms jeroenooms at gmail.com
Sun May 1 03:36:38 CEST 2011


I have a dependent variable with is very peaked and has heavy tails,
something I haven't encountered before. (histogram:
http://postimage.org/image/2sw9bn8pw/). What could be an appropriate family
or transformation to do regress on this?--
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