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Testing Transformations to Normality

A. C. Atkinson

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1973 · Volume 35 · Issue 3

DOI: 10.1111/j.2517-6161.1973.tb00975.x

Abstract

Andrews's exact test for the value of the parameter in the Box and Cox parameteric family of transformations is compared with two tests derived from the likelihood function. These two tests are shown, for a numerical example, to be uniformly more powerful than the exact test.

Keywords

power transformations to normality, box and cox, c (alpha) tests, asymptotic tests

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