Guide to Robust Statistical Methods

Rand R. Wilcox is Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He has written 15 other statistics books, including Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods: Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy, 2nd edition (2010), over 400 journal articles, is a former associate editor for 5 statistics journals, is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and he created the R package, WRS.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The one-sample case.- 3. Comparing two independent groups.- 4. Comparing two dependent groups.- 5. Comparing multiple independent groups.- 6. Comparing multiple dependent groups.- 7. Robust regression estimators.- 8. Inferential methods based on robust regression estimators.- 9. Measures of association.- 10. Comparing groups when there is a covariate.