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On Quick Choice of Power Transformation
Author(s) -
Hinkley David
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2346869
Subject(s) - transformation (genetics) , mathematics , statistics , power (physics) , chemistry , physics , thermodynamics , biochemistry , gene
Summary In an earlier article (Hinkley, 1975) the author has discussed an order‐statistic method for the fitting of power transformations of data to obtain approximate symmetry of transformed data distributions. The method is easy to apply to homogeneous samples and does not require normality. A similar quick method of choosing a symmetrizing transformation is outlined here, and a simple example is given.