[R] boxcox alternative

Max Kuhn mxkuhn at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 17:03:52 CET 2014


Michael,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:51 AM, Michael Haenlein
<haenlein at escpeurope.eu> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am working with a set of variables that are very non-normally
> distributed. To improve the performance of my model, I'm currently applying
> a boxcox transformation to them. While this improves things, the
> performance is still not great.
>

Are these predictors that you are transforming?

> So my question: Are there any alternatives to boxcox in R? I would need a
> model that estimates the "best" transformation automatically without input
> from the user since my approach should be flexible enough to deal with any
> kind of distribution. boxcox allows me to do this by picking the lambda
> that leads to the "best fit" but I wonder whether there are other options
> out there.
>

If they are predictors, caret has a function called 'preProcess' that
might interest you. See:

   http://caret.r-forge.r-project.org/preprocess.html#trans

Max




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