boxcox {MASS} R Documentation

## Box-Cox Transformations for Linear Models

### Description

Computes and optionally plots profile log-likelihoods for the parameter of the Box-Cox power transformation.

### Usage

boxcox(object, ...)

## Default S3 method:
boxcox(object, lambda = seq(-2, 2, 1/10), plotit = TRUE,
interp, eps = 1/50, xlab = expression(lambda),
ylab = "log-Likelihood", ...)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
boxcox(object, lambda = seq(-2, 2, 1/10), plotit = TRUE,
interp, eps = 1/50, xlab = expression(lambda),
ylab = "log-Likelihood", ...)

## S3 method for class 'lm'
boxcox(object, lambda = seq(-2, 2, 1/10), plotit = TRUE,
interp, eps = 1/50, xlab = expression(lambda),
ylab = "log-Likelihood", ...)


### Arguments

 object a formula or fitted model object. Currently only lm and aov objects are handled. lambda vector of values of lambda – default (-2, 2) in steps of 0.1. plotit logical which controls whether the result should be plotted. interp logical which controls whether spline interpolation is used. Default to TRUE if plotting with lambda of length less than 100. eps Tolerance for lambda = 0; defaults to 0.02. xlab defaults to "lambda". ylab defaults to "log-Likelihood". ... additional parameters to be used in the model fitting.

### Value

A list of the lambda vector and the computed profile log-likelihood vector, invisibly if the result is plotted.

### Side Effects

If plotit = TRUE plots log-likelihood vs lambda and indicates a 95% confidence interval about the maximum observed value of lambda. If interp = TRUE, spline interpolation is used to give a smoother plot.

### References

Box, G. E. P. and Cox, D. R. (1964) An analysis of transformations (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 26, 211–252.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

### Examples

boxcox(Volume ~ log(Height) + log(Girth), data = trees,
lambda = seq(-0.25, 0.25, length = 10))

boxcox(Days+1 ~ Eth*Sex*Age*Lrn, data = quine,
lambda = seq(-0.05, 0.45, len = 20))


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