The Box-Cox power transformation on nursing sensitive indicators: Does it matter if structural effects are omitted during the estimation of the transformation parameter?
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Many nursing and health related research studies have continuous outcome measures that are inherently non-normal in distribution. The Box-Cox transformation provides a powerful tool for developing a parsimonious model for data repres...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-08-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/11/118 |