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Assessing the Impact of Square Root Transformation on Weibull-Distributed Error Component of a Multiplicative Error Model

Received: 8 July 2021     Accepted: 19 July 2021     Published: 27 July 2021
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This paper aims at determining if the assumed fundamental structure of the error component (unit mean and constant variance) is maintained after the square root transformation of a Weibull-distributed error component of a multiplicative model and also to investigate what happens to variance of the transformed and untransformed in terms of equality and non-equality. Considering the possibility that the error component of a Multiplicative Error Model (MEM) can be a Weibull distribution (W (σ, n)); σ and n are shape and scale parameters respectively) and the need for data transformation as a popular remedial measure to stabilize the variance of a data set prior to statistical modeling, this paper investigates the impact of the square root transformation on the mean and variance of a Weibull-distributed error component of a MEM. The mean and variance of W (σ, n) and those of the square root transformed distributions are calculated for σ= 6, 7,.., 99, 100 with the corresponding values of n for which the mean of the untransformed distribution is equal to one. The fitted MEM (2,0) under the square root transformation gave a better fit than the original fitted MEM (2,0). The paper concludes that the square-root transformation would yield better results as they reveal constancy in variance when using MEM with a Weibull-distributed error component and where data transformation is deemed necessary to stabilize the variance of the data set.

Published in Science Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.sjams.20210904.11
Page(s) 94-105
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Multiplicative Error Model, Weibull Distribution, Square Transformation, Mean, Variance

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