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library(readxl)
TexasCountyPoverty<-read_excel("TexasCountyPoverty.xlsx")
pastecs::stat.desc(TexasCountyPoverty$pct_decimal)
##      nbr.val     nbr.null       nbr.na          min          max        range 
##   7.00000000   0.00000000   0.00000000   0.10600000   0.27600000   0.17000000 
##          sum       median         mean      SE.mean CI.mean.0.95          var 
##   1.26000000   0.16500000   0.18000000   0.02094210   0.05124347   0.00307000 
##      std.dev     coef.var 
##   0.05540758   0.30781989

The variable shows the percentages of poverty in 7 counties in the state of Texas.

hist(TexasCountyPoverty$pct_decimal,breaks=10)

TexasCountyPoverty<-TexasCountyPoverty %>% mutate(POV_LOG_TRANSFORM=log(pct_decimal))
hist(TexasCountyPoverty$POV_LOG_TRANSFORM)