Some Considerations in Estimating Data Transformations.

Abstract

In a recent paper Bickel and Doksum claimed that procedures proposed by Box and Cox for estimating a transformation can be costly and unstable. This document considers how the supposed cost and instability arise and illustrate the authors' points by further analysis of textile data from the original paper. The analysis is used to make the further point that the cost of not making a transformation, when such is appropriate, can be extremely high. Some common sense advice on transformation analysis is given. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137960

Entities

People

  • C. A. Fung
  • George E. P. Box

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Coefficients
  • Contracts
  • Contrast
  • Data Science
  • Efficiency
  • Equations
  • Information Science
  • Instability
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • North Carolina
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • Wisconsin

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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