Missing Value Treatment of adata set having both varble & ln transformed varibles

[ramya_sahu]

HI All,

I am carrying out a linear regression. My data set have many variables along with their ln() transformed varaibles. Since, some varaible values are zere, Ln transformed variables showing as missing. so, in this case what will be the better way for missing value treatment.

Please not that i have some ln transformed variables with more thant 50% missing values.

thanks in advance

Ramya 

[PaigeMiller]

If you go to your favorite search engine, and type in:

log transformation of data that contains zero

you find lots of suggestions on what to do.