Box-Cox power transformations are used to transform a set of observations to symmetry. A measure of location of the original data is obtained by applying the inverse transformation to the center of ...

Vol. 55, No. 2/3, Recent Advances in the Analysis of Genetic Traits (2003), pp. 108-116 (9 pages) Non-normality of the phenotypic distribution can affect power to detect quantitative trait loci in sib ...

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 ...