Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy

Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy / by Rand R. Wilcox.

Conventional statistical methods have a very serious flaw: They routinely miss differences among groups or associations among variables that are detected by more modern techniques - even under very small departures from normality. Hundreds of journal articles have described the reasons standard tech...

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Main Author: Wilcox, Rand R. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Probabilities.
Statistics .
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • I
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Getting Started
  • 3 The Normal Curve and Outlier Detection
  • 4 Accuracy and Inference
  • 5 Hypothesis Testing and Small Sample Sizes
  • 6 The Bootstrap
  • 7 A Fundamental Problem
  • II
  • 8 Robust Measures of Location
  • 9 Inferences About Robust Measures of Location
  • 10 Measures of Association
  • 11 Robust Regression
  • 12 Alternate Strategies
  • References.

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