A fast and efficient algorithm for the estimation of parameters in models with the box-and-cox transformation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 77, Issue 380, 1982, Pages 760-766

  Spitzer, John J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Nonlinear least squares; Power transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013275977     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1982.10477883     Document Type: Article

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