[KUJustin]

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This seems too easy ...

1) calculate the z-score of each data point
2) select a new standard deviation (> original SD)
3) use original z-scores with the new SD to obtain "flatter" data set.
4) profit!

Or did you mean something else?

Plus, I can't think of any compelling reason to do this.

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That was the best idea I'd had so far, was interested to see if I'd either get confirmation of that or another solid idea.

I'm not really sold on us having a compelling reason to do it either, but we're trying to improve some calculations we're doing with that data in comparing it to another set of data, and a transformation of the data was one idea that was suggested.

Thanks for the input.