Data Driven Statistical Methods

This book is designed for use either as a text book at the undergraduate level, as a source book providing material and suggestions for teachers, and also as a self-instruction manual for applied statisticians seeking a simple introduction to many important practical concepts that use the 'data driven' rather than the 'model driven' approach

List of contents

Data-Driven Inference. The Bootstrap. Outliers, Contamination, and Robustness. Location Tests for Two Independent Samples. More One- and Two-Sample Tests. Three or More Independent Samples. Designed Experiments. Correlation and Concordance. Bivariate Regression. Other Regression Models and Diagnostics. Categorical Data Analysis. Further Categorical Data Analysis. Data-Driven or Model-Driven? References. Index.

About the author

Peter Sprent is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Dundee in Scotland.

Summary

This book is designed for use either as a text book at the undergraduate level, as a source book providing material and suggestions for teachers, and also as a self-instruction manual for applied statisticians seeking a simple introduction to many important practical concepts that use the 'data driven' rather than the 'model driven' approach

Product details

• Authors: Peter Sprent, Peter (Dundee University Sprent
• Assisted by: Chris Chatfield (Editor of the series), Jim Lindsey (Editor of the series), Jim Zidek (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1997
• EAN: 9780412795404
• ISBN: 978-0-412-79540-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Weight: 657 g
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, COMPUTERS / Mathematical & Statistical Software, Probability & statistics, Mathematical & statistical software, Probability and statistics, Mathematical and statistical software