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Fundamentals of modern statistical methods : substantially improving power and accuracy /

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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.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2001]
Subjects:
Mathematical statistics.
Statistique mathématique.
Statistiek.
Robuustheid.
Grondslagen.
Statistik.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 8. Robust Measures of Location
  • 9. Inferences about Robust Measures of Location
  • 10. Measures of Association
  • 11. Robust Regression
  • 12. Alternate Strategies.