Dear Rlist, Using an example in box.cox.powers() help, I have the following warning message.
example: library(car) >attach(Prestige) > box.cox.powers(income) Box-Cox Transformation to Normality Est.Power Std.Err. Wald(Power=0) Wald(Power=1) 0.1793 0.1108 1.6179 -7.4062 L.R. test, power = 0: 2.7103 df = 1 p = 0.0997 L.R. test, power = 1: 47.261 df = 1 p = 0 Warning message: In optimize(f = function(lambda) univ.neg.kernel.logL(x = X[, j], : NA/Inf replaced by maximum positive value I do not know the reason for such warning message. Can someone help me on this matter? Best regards, Clara Cordeiro > sessionInfo() R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252;LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252;LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] nnet_7.2-38 car_1.2-7 MASS_7.2-38 FitAR_1.0 leaps_2.7 [6] lattice_0.17-2 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.6.1 tools_2.6.1 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.