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| From | Charalambos Karagiannakis <karagiannakis.charalambos@ucy.ac.cy> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: Interpretation of Box-Cox Results |
| Date | Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:40:56 +0200 |
Dear Statalist users, Hello. I run a Box-Cox transformation for only the dependent variable using the command boxcox and I would appreciate some help with the interpretation of the results. The Box-Cox transform parameter ‘theta’ turns out to be very close to zero and statistical significant (namely, -0.0730 with a s.e. of 0.0091). However, at the bottom table where different null hypotheses for theta are tested, all three cases (H0:theta=-1, H0:theta=0, H0:theta=1) return a 0.000 p-value, rejecting all the possible specifications (reciprocal, log and linear specification respectively). How could one interpret this result? Thank you in advance. Harris Karagiannakis |