transformation, and severely non-normal would use an inverse transformation (Abrams, 1999). The aim of data transformation allows for changing the non-normal distributed population data into more useful variable and is not uncommon as the basic statistical summaries such as the sample mean, variance, z-scores, histograms, etc., are all transformed data and require the data follow a particular distribution (Bland & Altman, 1996; Trochim & Donnelly, 2008).
Part II
What does p = .05 mean?
P = .05