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Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods: Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy
Rand R. Wilcox
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Description for Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods: Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy
Hardback. This book describes basic statistical principles from a point of view that makes their shortcomings intuitive and easy to understand. The emphasis is on verbal and graphical descriptions of concepts. The book includes a number of new advances and insights. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
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 techniques can be unsatisfactory, but simple, intuitive explanations are generally unavailable. Situations arise where even highly nonsignificant results become significant when analyzed with more modern methods. Without assuming the reader has any prior training in statistics, Part I of this book describes basic statistical principles from a point of view that makes their shortcomings ... Read more
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 techniques can be unsatisfactory, but simple, intuitive explanations are generally unavailable. Situations arise where even highly nonsignificant results become significant when analyzed with more modern methods. Without assuming the reader has any prior training in statistics, Part I of this book describes basic statistical principles from a point of view that makes their shortcomings ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
278
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441955241
SKU
V9781441955241
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99-15
Reviews for Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods: Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy
From the reviews of the second edition: It is a well-written and neatly organized book that introduces modern robust statistical methods ... . the book not only a handbook for applied researchers who need to conduct reasonable and interpretable data analysis, but also a good textbook for non-statistics students and statistics undergraduate students. This is the ... Read more