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Applied nonparametric statistics / Wayne W. Daniel.

By: Daniel, Wayne W, 1929-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1978Description: xiii, 503 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0395257956.Subject(s): Nonparametric statisticsDDC classification: 519.54
Contents:
Introduction and review -- Procedures that utilize data from a single sample -- Procedures that utilize data from two independent samples -- Procedures that utilize data from two related samples -- Chi- square tests of independence and homogeneity -- Procedures that utilize data from three or more independent samples -- Procedures that utilize data from three or more related samples -- Goodness-of-fit tests -- Rank correlation and other measures of association -- Simple linear regression analysis.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction and review -- Procedures that utilize data from a single sample -- Procedures that utilize data from two independent samples -- Procedures that utilize data from two related samples -- Chi- square tests of independence and homogeneity -- Procedures that utilize data from three or more independent samples -- Procedures that utilize data from three or more related samples -- Goodness-of-fit tests -- Rank correlation and other measures of association -- Simple linear regression analysis.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Introduction and Review Some important terminology
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Estimation
  • Measurement scales
  • Nonparametric statistics
  • Availability and use of computer programs in nonparametric statistical analysis
  • Scope of this book
  • Format and organization
  • References
  • 2 Procedures That Utilize Data From a Single Sample Making inferences about a location parameter
  • Making inferences about a population proportion
  • One-sample runs test for randomness
  • Cox-Stuart test for trend
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 3 Procedures that Utilize Data From two Independent Samples Making inferences about the difference between two location parameters
  • Making inferences about the equality of two dispersion parameters
  • Some miscellaneous two-sample tests
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 4 Procedures that Utilize Data From two Related Samples Procedures for testing hypotheses about location parameters
  • Confidence interval procedures for the median difference
  • Test for two related samples when data consist of frequencies
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 5 Chi-Square Tests of Independence and Homogeneity Mathematical properties of the chi-square distribution
  • Chi-Square test of independence
  • Chi-square test of homogeneity
  • Miscellany
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 6 Procedures that Utilize Data From Three or More Independent Samples Extension of the median test
  • Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks
  • Jonckheere-Terpstra test for ordered alternatives
  • Multiple comparisons
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 7 Procedures That Utilize Data from Three or More Related Samples Friedman two-way analysis of variance by ranks
  • Multiple-comparison procedure for use with Friedman test
  • Page''s test for ordered alternatives
  • Durbin test for incomplete block designs
  • Cochran''s test for related observations
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 8 Goodness-of-Fit Tests Chi-square goodness-of-it test
  • Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test
  • Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test
  • Confidence band for the population distribution function
  • Chi-square and Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit tests: a comparison
  • Other goodness-of-fit tests
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 9 Rank Correlation and other Measures of Association Spearman rank correlation coefficient
  • Kendall''s tau
  • Confidence interval for tau
  • Olmstead-Tukey corner test of association
  • Kendall''s coefficient of concordance W
  • Partial rank correlation
  • Measures of association for contingency tables
  • Other measures of association
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • 10 Simple Linear Regression Analysis Fitting the Regression Line
  • Testing the hypothesis about alpha and beta
  • Confidence interval for slope coefficient
  • Test for parallelism of two regression lines
  • Estimator and confidence interval for difference between slope parameters
  • Computer programs
  • Review exercises
  • References
  • Appendix: Tables
  • Solutions to Odd-Numbered Exercises
  • Index

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