This highly-regarded text serves as a quick reference book which offers clear, concise instructions on how and when to use the most popular nonparametric procedures. This edition features some procedures that have withstood the test of time and are now used by many practitioners, such as the Fisher Exact Test for two-by-two contingency tables, the Mantel-Haenszel Test for combining several contingency tables, the Kaplan-Meier estimates of the survival curve, the Jonckheere-Terpstra Test and the Page Test for ordered alternatives, and a discussion of the bootstrap method.
Additional nonparametric procedures such as the Fisher Exact Test for two-by-two contingency tables, the Mantel-Haenszel Test for combining several contingency tables, the Kaplan-Meier estimates of the survival curve, the Jonckheere-Terpstra Test and the Page Test for ordered alternatives.
Discussion of new bootstrap procedure for estimation.
Over 125 new student exercises and problems.
References in each section to popular statistical software packages when performing certain nonparametric procedures and routines.
Features
Hundreds of student exercises and problems covering a wide range of difficulty at the end of each section and chapter.
All Nonparametric procedures are summarized in each chapter for an easy to use, one-stop reference for students.
Over 800 references, many updated for the third edition, at the end of every section in Chapters 3-6 makes it easy for students to learn more about any procedure.
Clear writing, a practical approach, good examples, and concise exposition continue to make this edition a Wiley Classic.
