Inverse Box-Cox: The power-normal distribution

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 764-772

  Freeman, Jade ^a   Modarres, Reza ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Lognormal; Power normal; Quantiles; Skewness; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644918574     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.10.036     Document Type: Article

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