Recently, I read Part I of Song S. Qian’s book - Environmental and Ecological Statistics with R and find some interesting tips about statistics in environmental science. Here I will discuss the log transformation of concentration.
In this book, the author said that the statistical distribution of concentration data of certain compounds need a log transformation to show a bell curve. I don’t know if this conclusion comes from certain theory or just depends on the observation. But usually, when we sample from a certain place for the concentration of POPs, most of …