neglog: Neg log transformation for linear models

In akreutzmann/trafo: Estimation, Comparison and Selection of Transformations

Description

The function transforms the dependent variable of a linear model using the Neg log transformation.

Usage

neglog(object)

Arguments

object

an object of type lm.

Value

An object of class trafo. Methods such as as.data.frame.trafo and print.trafo can be used for this class.

References

Whittaker J, Whitehead C, Somers M (2005). The neglog transformation and quantile regression for the analysis of a large credit scoring database. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), 54(4), 863-878.

Examples

# Load data
data("cars", package = "datasets")

# Fit linear model
lm_cars <- lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars)

# Transform dependent variable 
neglog(object = lm_cars)

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