Comparing Distributions

• Main Author: Thas, Olivier. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Statistics,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Data mining.; Statistical methods.; Operations research.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Psychometrics.; Statistics, general.; Biostatistics.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92710-7

Comparing Distributions refers to the statistical data analysis that encompasses the traditional goodness-of-fit testing. Whereas the latter includes only formal statistical hypothesis tests for the one-sample and the K-sample problems, this book presents a more general and informative treatment by...

Table of Contents:

• Part I One-sample problems Introduction
• Preliminaries (building blocks)
• Graphic tools
• Smooth tests
• Methods based on the empirical distribution function
• Part II Two-sample and K-sample problems Introduction
• Preliminaries (building blocks)
• Graphical tools
• Some important two-sample tests
• Smooth tests
• Methods based on the empirical distribution function
• Two final methods and some final thoughts.