Quality of the log transformation for an incorrectly assumed error structure

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 605-616

  Krehbiel, Timothy C ^a   Jobe, J Marcus ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear regression; Ordinary least squares regression; Transformations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005920987     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919808813498     Document Type: Article

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