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RE: st: RE: bcskew0 transform back
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"Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: RE: bcskew0 transform back
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Tue, 18 May 2010 12:42:49 -0700
We always seem to forget that percentiles transform one-one but means and standard deviations get messed up.
Regarding the Box-Cox transformation, a few years ago I had an article in which I used it and found that the estimation of the power parameter was very unstable because the likelihood surface was very flat near the optimum, and so you could get no stable value. So, I support Nick's reaction to it. Nevertheless, it's a start...
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 541-737-3832
FAX: 541-737-4001
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: bcskew0 transform back
This seems doubly problematic. The fact is that -bcskew0- entails
estimation of a parameter. I don't know how that meshes with the
imputation. It sounds as if you should be doing that on each imputed
dataset. Using the same constant on all sounds wrong. Others can improve
on my visceration.
Personally I think the whole Box-Cox methodology, despite its splendid
name, to be very oversold.
-ice- is a user-written program from ....
Nick
[email protected]
raoul reulen
I failed to mention that I am using the transformed variable in a
multiple imputation model (using ice) and impute missing values. After
the imputation I then want to transfer the imputed variable back.
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