The Yeo-Johnson transformation is a flexible transformation that is similiar to Box-Cox, boxcox_trans(), but does not require input values to be greater than zero.

yj_trans(p)

## Arguments

p Transformation exponent, $$\lambda$$.

## Details

The transformation takes one of four forms depending on the values of y and $$\lambda$$.

• $$y \ge 0$$ and $$\lambda \neq 0$$ : $$y^{(\lambda)} = \frac{(y + 1)^\lambda - 1}{\lambda}$$

• $$y \ge 0$$ and $$\lambda = 0$$: $$y^{(\lambda)} = \ln(y + 1)$$

• $$y < 0$$ and $$\lambda \neq 2$$: $$y^{(\lambda)} = -\frac{(-y + 1)^{(2 - \lambda)} - 1}{2 - \lambda}$$

• $$y < 0$$ and $$\lambda = 2$$: $$y^{(\lambda)} = -\ln(-y + 1)$$

## References

Yeo, I., & Johnson, R. (2000). A New Family of Power Transformations to Improve Normality or Symmetry. Biometrika, 87(4), 954-959. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2673623

## Examples

plot(yj_trans(-1), xlim = c(-10, 10))plot(yj_trans(0), xlim = c(-10, 10))plot(yj_trans(1), xlim = c(-10, 10))plot(yj_trans(2), xlim = c(-10, 10))