Prescriptions for Working Statisticians:
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Main Author: Madansky, Albert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1988
Series:Springer Texts in Statistics
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:The first course in statistics, no matter how "good" or "long" it is, typically covers inferential procedures which are valid only if a number of preconditions are satisfied by the data. For example, students are taught about regression procedures valid only if the true residuals are independent, homoscedastic, and normally distributed. But they do not learn how to check for independence, homoscedasticity, or normality, and certainly do not learn how to adjust their data and/or model so that these assumptions are met. To help this student out! I designed a second course, containing a collection of statistical diagnostics and prescriptions necessary for the applied statistician so that he can deal with the realities of inference from data, and not merely with the kind of classroom problems where all the data satisfy the assumptions associated with the technique to be taught. At the same time I realized that I was writing a book for a wider audience, namely all those away from the classroom whose formal statistics education ended with such a course and who apply statistical techniques to data
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 295p. 25 illus)
ISBN:9781461237945
9781461283546
ISSN:1431-875X
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4612-3794-5

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