Wilcox - Applying Contemporary Statistical Techniques

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1、2PREFACEOverviewThegoalsinthisbookare:(1)todescribefundamentalprinciplesinamannerthattakesintoaccountmanynewinsightsandadvancesthatareoftenignoredinanintroductorycourse,(2)tosummarizebasicmethodscoveredinagraduatelevel,appliedstatisticscoursedealingwithANOVA,r

2、egression,andrank-basedmeth-ods,(3)todescribehowandwhyconventionalmethodscanbeunsatisfactory,and(4)todescriberecentlydevelopedmethodsfordealingwiththepracticalproblemsassociatedwithstandardtechniques.Anothergoalistohelpmakecontemporarytechniquesmoreaccessibleb

3、ysupplyinganddescribingeasy-to-useS-PLUSfunc-tions.ManyoftheS-PLUSfunctionsincludedherehavenotappearedinanyotherbook.(Chapter1providesabriefintroductiontoS-PLUSsothatreadersunfamiliarwithS-PLUScanemploythemethodscoveredinthebook.)Problemswithstan-dardstatistic

4、almethodsarewellknownamongquantitativeexpertsbutarerarelyexplainedtostudentsandappliedresearchers.Themanydetailsaresimplifiedandelaborateduponinamannerthatisnotavailableinanyotherbook.Nopriortraininginstatisticsisassumed.FeaturesThebookcontainsmanymethodsbeyond

5、thoseinanyotherbookandprovidesamuchmoreup-to-datelookatthestrategiesusedtoaddressnonnormalityandheteroscedasticity.Thematerialonregressionincludesseveralestimatorsthathaverecentlybeenfoundtohavepracticalvalue.Includedisthedeepestregressionlineestimatorrecently

6、proposedbyRousseeuwandhiscolleagues.Thelastchaptercoversrank-basedmethods,butunlikeanyotherbook,thelatestinformationonhandlingtiedvaluesisdescribed.(BrunnerandCliffdescribedifferentstrategiesfordealingwithtiesandbothareconsidered.)Recentresultsontwo-waydesigns

7、arecovered,includingrepeatedmeasuresdesigns.Chapter7providesasimpleintroductiontobootstrapmethods,andchapters8–14includethelatestinformationontherelativemeritsofdifferentbootstraptechniquesxixiiPrefacewhendealingwithANOVAandregression.Thebestnon-bootstrapmetho

8、dsarecoveredaswell.Again,methodsandadvancesnotavailableinanyotherbookaredescribed.Chapters13–14includemanynewinsightsaboutrobustregressionthatarenotavailableinanyotherbook.Forexamp