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square-root transformation

square-root transformation A square-root transformation is a way of changing data by taking square roots of the values.

A square-root transformation is a way of changing data by taking square roots of the values. In the source, it is used to map compositional microbiome data onto the surface of a hypersphere as part of handling zero-inflated data.

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Drafting source: Lee Jeseok; Kim Byungwon. Zero inflated high dimensional compositional data with DeepInsight. 2025; DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0320832; article XML SHA-256 4b19a937d9d6aa8ee04d71b0503b8bb9d7ffdb74bdf648c06586c09ed14901c7. “Zero inflated high dimensional compositional data with DeepInsight” (10.1371/journal.pone.0320832).
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