Transformation of Life-Test Data
- 1 August 1968
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Mathematical Society in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin
- Vol. 11 (3) , 475-488
- https://doi.org/10.4153/cmb-1968-057-3
Abstract
In a recent paper Box and Cox (1964) considered the problem of transforming dependent variables in regression and analysis of variance problems, in order to achieve the usual assumptions of Normality, constant variance and additivity of effects. Here we adopt the same approach to investigate transformations of data which allow the transformed observations to follow a Gamma distribution. A special case of this is the exponential distribution, valuable in life-testing, for which examples are given.Keywords
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