Re: [R] powerTransform warning message?

2015-07-17 Thread Brittany Demmitt
Thank you so much for the explanation. That was very helpful! :-) Thanks! Brittany On Jul 16, 2015, at 6:16 PM, John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote: Dear Brittany, On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:35:38 -0600 Brittany Demmitt demmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a series of 40 variables

Re: [R] powerTransform warning message?

2015-07-16 Thread Bert Gunter
I suggest you consult a local statistician. You are (way) over your head statistically here, and statistical matters are off topic on this list. The brief answer to your question is: you are almost certainly producing nonsense. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Data is not information. Information is

Re: [R] powerTransform warning message?

2015-07-16 Thread John Fox
Dear Brittany, On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:35:38 -0600 Brittany Demmitt demmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a series of 40 variables that I am trying to transform via the boxcox method using the powerTransfrom function in R. I have no zero values in any of my variables. When I run the

[R] powerTransform warning message?

2015-07-16 Thread Brittany Demmitt
Hello, I have a series of 40 variables that I am trying to transform via the boxcox method using the powerTransfrom function in R. I have no zero values in any of my variables. When I run the powerTransform function on the full data set I get the following warning. Warning message: In

[R] powerTransform Warning Message

2013-01-17 Thread Beatriz González
Hello, I would like to perform a Box-Cox (“bcPower”) transformation on my data. For this, I am determining lambda using the “powerTransform” function. However, with one of my variables I get the following Warning Message: In estimateTransform(x, y, NULL, ...) : Convergence failure: