Robust inference
By: M.L. Tiku, W.Y. Tan, N. Balakrishnan.
Contributors: Tan, W. Y., 1934-; Balakrishnan, N., 1956-
Series: Statistics, textbooks and monographs ;
Publisher: M. Dekker
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780824775322
Copyright date: ©1986
Subjects: Robust statistics.; Nonparametric statistics.; Estimation theory.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 284-313.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Robustness of Some Classical Tests --; title: Student's t test --; title: Asymptotic robustness of the t test --; title: Variance-ratio test for comparing several means --; title: Asymptotic robustness of the variance-ratio test --; title: Small-sample distributions of t and F under nonnormal distributions and robustness --; title: Small-sample null distribution of F and type I robustness --; title: Small-sample power of the t test and the F test --; title: Testing equality of two variances --; title: Laguerre polynomial expansion of nonnegative random variables --; title: Estimation Procedures for Censored Samples --; title: Type II censoring --; title: Truncated distributions and their cumulants --; title: Estimation of parameters from type II censored samples --; title: Least-squares estimators (BLUEs) --; title: Maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) --; title: MMLEs for the normal --; title: Robust estimators and comparisons with the MMLEs --; title: Random choice of the proportion of censoring --; title: Adaptive estimators of location --; title: Order statistics --; title: MMLEs for Other Distributions --; title: MMLE for log-normal distribution --; title: MMLE for the logistic distribution --; title: Estimation of parameters of exponential distribution --; title: MML estimation of parameters for Rayleigh distribution --; title: MML estimation in progressively censored samples --; title: MML estimation for truncated distributions --; title: Robust Tests --; title: Robust Studentized one-sample tests --; title: Testing equality of two location parameters when scale parameters are equal --; title: Testing equality of location parameters of extreme skew distributions --; title: Comparison of two location parameters when the scale parameters are unequal --; title: Comparison of two variances.