Data Driven Statistical Methods

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

• 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.

"This scholarly book brings together a vast literature on methods for analyzing and modeling rank data...it is a mathematical statistics book in the best sense of the word..."- Short Books Reviews of the ISI