A semi-parametric method for transforming data to normality

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-257

  Koekemoer, Gerhard ^a   Swanepoel, Jan W H ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Normality; Profile likelihood; qq Plots; Semi parametric; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449105757     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-008-9053-3     Document Type: Article

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