Transformation of arbitrary distributions to the normal distribution with application to EEG test-retest reliability

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-211

  van Albada, S J ^a,b   Robinson, P A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Box Cox; EEG; Normal transformation; Parametric statistics; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33947587221     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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