We Show That a Box-Cox Transformation on the Dependent Variable of Linear Regression Models Is Invariant to Power Transformations of That Variable Even Without the Presence of a Regression Constant And, Consequently, Can Sometimes Be Interpreted As a Simple Power Transformation the Estimation of...

We Propose a New Index to Treat Information Obtained From Questionnaires with Categorically Ordered Answers. We Also Show How the Index Is Useful If Ordinal Answers Are Cardinalized by the Researcher, and Provide an Example of Such a Case.