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. 2010 May 28;97(3):713–726. doi: 10.1093/biomet/asq023

Table 3.

Simulation results for the transformation model × transformation model estimator of Aadj(·)

Box–Cox transformation models
ρ = 2 ρ = 1
Parameter Bias sse see cp(%) Bias sse see cp(%)
Aadj(τ/4) −0.001 0.046 0.046 94.9 −0.001 0.050 0.049 94.9
Aadj(τ/2) −0.001 0.045 0.045 95.0 −0.001 0.047 0.046 94.7
Aadj(3τ/4) −0.000 0.044 0.044 94.7 −0.001 0.043 0.043 94.6
Aadj(τ) 0.001 0.046 0.043 94.0 0.001 0.043 0.041 94.2
Logarithmic transformation models
r = 2 r = 1
Parameter Bias sse see cp(%) Bias sse see cp(%)
Aadj(τ/4) −0.002 0.054 0.053 94.6 −0.002 0.053 0.052 94.7
Aadj(τ/2) −0.001 0.043 0.043 94.9 −0.001 0.045 0.044 94.8
Aadj(3τ/4) −0.000 0.037 0.037 95.0 −0.000 0.039 0.039 95.0
Aadj(τ) 0.001 0.034 0.034 94.5 0.001 0.037 0.036 94.1

Bias, the sampling bias; sse, the sampling standard error; see, the sampling mean of the standard error estimator; cp, the coverage probability of the 95% Wald confidence interval.