Comparing Distributions

• Main Author: Thas, Olivier (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Statistics,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Data mining.; Biostatistics.; Probabilities.; Social sciences.; Statistics, general.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

Comparing Distributions refers to the statistical data analysis that encompasses the traditional goodness-of-fit testing. Whereas the latter includes only formal statistical hypothesis tests for the one-sample and the K-sample problems, this book presents a more general and informative treatment by...

Table of Contents:

• One-Sample Problems
• Preliminaries (Building Blocks)
• Graphical Tools
• Smooth Tests
• Methods Based on the Empirical Distribution Function
• Two-Sample and K-Sample Problems
• Preliminaries (Building Blocks)
• Graphical Tools
• Some Important Two-Sample Tests
• Smooth Tests
• Methods Based on the Empirical Distribution Function
• Two Final Methods and Some Final Thoughts.