Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy /

• Main Author: Wilcox, Rand R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: Second.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5525-8

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 techn...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Getting started
• The normal curve and outlier detection
• Accuracy and inference
• Hypothesis testing and small sample sizes
• The Bootstrap
• A fundamental problem
• Robust measures of location
• Inferences about robust measures of location
• Measures of association
• Robust regression
• Alternative strategies and software.