The Box-Cox power transformation on nursing sensitive indicators: Does it matter if structural effects are omitted during the estimation of the transformation parameter?

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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Main Authors: Gajewski Byron J, Mahnken Jonathan D, Hou Qingjiang, Dunton Nancy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-08-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Data transformation
NDNQI
Nursing quality indicator
ANOVA, Mixed model
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/11/118

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