Confidence Interval Estimation for Means After Data Transformations to Normality.

When data are transformed to satisfy a spherical normal linear model, the mean θ of a variate in the original scale is a function of the mean μ and variance σ² of a normal variate. We consider several approximate confidence interval methods for θ, including a new method based on exact confidence intervals for linear functions of μ and σ² Monte Carlo estimates of coverage probabilities demonstrate the suitability of the new method for applications involving a wide range of data transformations, parameter values and sample sizes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]