Which Statement About Re-Expressing Data Is True

Multiple Choice

Which statement about re-expressing data is true?

A) To make unimodal distribution that is skewed to the left more symmetric we should take the square root of the variable.
B) Transforming data cannot make a scatterplot and residual plot less spread out.
C) Transforming data is based only on the logarithmic function of the response variable.
D) One goal of re-expressing may be to make the variability of the response variable more uniform.
E) Re-expressing data by the logarithms should be used only when we want make the form of the scatterplot more nearly linear.