A SAS® code to correct for non-normality and non-constant variance in regression and ANOVA models using the Box-Cox method of power transformation

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-273

  Malaeb, Ziad A ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CADMIUM;

BOX-COX METHOD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POWER TRANSFORMATION; REGRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; VARIANCE; WATER POLLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTUARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA) MODELS; BOX COX POWER TRANSFORMATIONS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SAS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EID: 0030616241     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005798521296     Document Type: Review

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