EVALUATION OF JOHNSON’S SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMING NON-NORMAL DATA

Y. S. Yang (Taiwan)

Received April 28, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: Johnson’s system, non-normal distribution, transformation.