Prescriptions for Working Statisticians (Springer Texts in Statistics)

Madansky, Albert

ISBN 10: 146128354X / ISBN 13: 9781461283546

Published by Springer, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prescriptions for Working Statisticians (Springer Texts in Statistics)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 146128354X
• ISBN 13: 9781461283546
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 indepen­ dence, 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 collec­ tion 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.