Box-Cox transformation for spatial linear models: A study on lattice data

Statistical Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 853-864

  Lai, Dejian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Conditional autoregressive model; Geary's c; Maximal likelihood estimation; Moran's I; Simultaneous autoregressive model

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650510789     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-008-0178-4     Document Type: Article

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