{"title":"Testing Transformations to Normality","authors":"A. Atkinson","doi":"10.1111/J.2517-6161.1973.TB00975.X","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY 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.","PeriodicalId":17425,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the royal statistical society series b-methodological","volume":"14 1","pages":"473-479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1973-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"97","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the royal statistical society series b-methodological","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2517-6161.1973.TB00975.X","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
SUMMARY 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.