Refraction and keratometry: Departures from and transformations toward multivariate normality

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 452-458

  Blackie, G A ^a   Harris, W F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Kurtosis; Multivariate normality; Probability plotting; Skewness

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL OPTICS;

BOX/COX TRANSFORMATIONS; KERATOMETRY; MULTIVARIATE NORMALITY;

VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORNEA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTOMETRY; PROBABILITY; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 12644290272     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199706000-00031     Document Type: Article

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