A methodology to implement box-cox transformation when no covariate is available

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1740-1759

  Dag, Osman ^a   Asar, Ozgur ^a   Ilk, Ozlem ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data transformation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Non informative covariate; Normality; Regression analysis; Statistical distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893946462     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2012.744042     Document Type: Article

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