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

BACKGROUND: 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 representation and interpretation when the distribution of th...

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Autores principales: Hou, Qingjiang, Mahnken, Jonathan D, Gajewski, Byron J, Dunton, Nancy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21854614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-118

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21854614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-118

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