Using normal quantile plot to select an appropriate transformation to achieve normality

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 609-619

  Tan, W D ^a   Gan, F F ^a   Chang, T C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Exploratory data analysis; Exponential transformation; Graphical methods; Robust estimation; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

DATA SETS; OUTLIERS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

DATA SET; GRAPHICAL METHOD;

EID: 1842731044     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00009-4     Document Type: Article

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