Yet More Supporting Data Analysis for “Unifying Life History Analysis for Inference of Fitness and Population Growth”

This technical report (TR) gives details of a data reanalysis backing up a paper having the same authors as this TR and having the title that is quoted in the title of this TR. Two previous TR, 658 and 661, have the bulk of the supporting data analysis this paper. This TR deals with one minor issue, BoxCox transformation of predictor variables to make them more normal and the effect of such transformation on the estimation of fitness surfaces, in particular on Figure 3 of the paper, which is also Figure 14 of TR 661. The sole objective of this TR is to produce the analog of that figure using transformed predictors.

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