Dear NMusers,
I am trying to model some PD data, which has a lower bound of zero and an upper 
bound of 100. I was wondering how to implement this restriction and if it was 
possible to use the general logistic transformation in the $ERROR block shown 
below: 

$ERROR
IPRE=A(1)
LT=LOG(IPRE/(100-IPRE))+ERR(1)
Y=(100*EXP(LT))/(1+EXP(LT))

If this is appropriate, do I understand correctly that this is NOT a transform 
both sides approach; i.e. DV stays in its original or natural form. 

Finally, the logistic transformation extends from -∞ to +∞. However, the 
dataset does have a small number of values that are zeros and 100 (Five zeros 
and a couple of 100s in a dataset of about 700 observations). Do these small 
number of extreme values in the dataset cause problem when the LT term is back 
transformed above.

Any other method and references for papers that use these types of constraints 
would be greatly appreciated.

Warm regards and thanks in advance...MNS

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