A Box-Cox Power Transformation allows you to transform data to match a normal distribution. It is not a guarantee of normality. It is a quick way of transforming data to better fit a control chart.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 49, No. 2 (2000), pp. 287-296 (10 pages) We analyse longitudinal data on CD4 cell counts from patients who participated in ...

Following Box and Cox (1964), the use of transformations in regression analysis is now common; recently there has been emphasis on diagnostic methods for transformation, much of which has involved ...

The Box-Cox transformation is a general class of transformations that includes the logarithm as a special case. The %BOXCOXAR macro can be used to find an optimal Box-Cox transformation for a time ...

Eradication of poverty is one of the most important Millennium Development Goals defined by the United Nations. One approach to studying this is by using small area (SA) methods. SA models combine ...