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An Alternative Family of Transformations
Author(s) -
John J. A.,
Draper N. R.
Publication year - 1980
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 - 10.2307/2986305
Subject(s) - mathematics
S ummary An example of data for which the power family transformation does not produce satisfactory distributional properties is discussed, and an alternative one‐parameter family of transformations is suggested. In this example, the unsatisfactory feature of the power transformation was its failure to deal with a symmetric distribution with long tails.