Improving your data transformations: Applying the Box-Cox transformation

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Osborne, Jason W ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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