The Procedure for Selection of Transformations from the Johnson System

The selection of the form of the transformation to normality from the Johnson system has proved to be confusing in many cases where nothing is known about the underlying distribution. In this paper we investigate how the choice made by the investigator of the Z-value in the Slifker and Shapiro (1980) procedure affects the form of the transformation given by the Slifker and Shapiro procedure. Our investigation centers around simulations of an exponential distribution.