Re: [R] Please, problem using bcPower

2013-01-31 Thread John Fox
Dear Beatriz, There are several problems that combine to make the computation unstable: the small size of the numbers, the small ratio of the largest to the smallest value, the extreme negative skew of the data, and the outliers at the low end. Because of the small ratio of max(x) to min(x),

[R] Please, problem using “bcPower”

2013-01-30 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: