Nonparametric Statistical Methods
Praise for theSecond Edition"This book should be an essential part of the personal library of every practicing statistician."—TechnometricsThoroughly revised and updated, the new edition ofNonparametric Statistical Methodsincludes additional modern topics and procedures, more practical data sets, and new problems from real-life situations. The book continues to emphasize the importance of nonparametric methods as a significant branch of modern statistics and equips readers with the conceptual and technical skills necessary to select and apply the appropriate procedures for any given situation.Written by leading statisticians,Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Third Editionprovides readers with crucial nonparametric techniques in a variety of settings, emphasizing the assumptions underlying the methods. The book provides an extensive array of examples that clearly illustrate how to use nonparametric approaches for handling one- or two-sample location and dispersion problems, dichotomous data, and one-way and two-way layout problems. In addition, theThird Editionfeatures:The use of the freely available R software to aid in computation and simulation, including many new R programs written explicitly for this new editionNew chapters that address density estimation, wavelets, smoothing, ranked set sampling, and Bayesian nonparametricsProblems that illustrate examples from agricultural science, astronomy, biology, criminology, education, engineering, environmental science, geology, home economics, medicine, oceanography, physics, psychology, sociology, and space scienceNonparametric Statistical Methods, Third Editionis an excellent reference for applied statisticians and practitioners who seek a review of nonparametric methods and their relevant applications. The book is also an ideal textbook for upper-undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in applied nonparametric statistics.