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Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures

David J. Sheskin
Publisher: 
Chapman & Hall/CRC
Publication Date: 
2011
Number of Pages: 
1886
Format: 
Hardcover
Edition: 
5
Price: 
169.95
ISBN: 
9781439858011
Category: 
Handbook
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The Basic Library List Committee suggests that undergraduate mathematics libraries consider this book for acquisition.

[Reviewed by
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
, on
06/13/2011
]

See our review of the fourth edition. The new edition has about 150 new pages including three new chapters: path analysis, structural equation modeling, and meta-analysis.

Introduction
Outline of Inferential Statistical Tests and Measures of Correlation/Association
Guidelines and Decision Tables for Selecting the Appropriate Statistical Procedure

Inferential Statistical Tests Employed with a Single Sample
The Single-Sample z Test
The Single-Sample t Test
The Single-Sample Test for Evaluating Population Skewness
The Single-Sample Test for Evaluating Population Kurtosis
The Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test
The Kolmogorov–Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test for a Single Sample
The Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
The Binomial Sign Test for a Single Sample
The Single-Sample Runs Test (and Other Tests of Randomness)

Inferential Statistical Tests Employed with Two Independent Samples (and Related Measures of Association/Correlation)
The t Test for Two Independent Samples
The Mann–Whitney U Test
The Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test for Two Independent Samples
The Siegel–Tukey Test for Equal Variability
The Moses Test for Equal Variability
The Chi-Square Test for r × c Tables

Inferential Statistical Tests Employed with Two Dependent Samples (and Related Measures of Association/Correlation)
The t Test for Two Dependent Samples
The Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test
The Binomial Sign Test for Two Dependent Samples
The McNemar Test

Inferential Statistical Tests Employed with Two or More Independent Samples (and Related Measures of Association/Correlation)
The Single-Factor Between-Subjects Analysis of Variance
The Kruskal–Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance by Ranks
The van der Waerden Normal Scores Test

Inferential Statistical Tests Employed with Two or More Dependent Samples (and Related Measures of Association/Correlation)
The Single-Factor Within-Subjects Analysis of Variance
The Friedman Two-Way Analysis of Variance by Ranks
The Cochran Q Test

Inferential Statistical Test Employed with a Factorial Design (and Related Measures of Association/Correlation)
The Between-Subjects Factorial Analysis of Variance

Measures of Association/Correlation
The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient
Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient
Kendall's Tau
Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance
Goodman and Kruskal's Gamma

Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Matrix Algebra and Multivariate Analysis
Multiple Regression
Hotelling’s T2
Multivariate Analysis of Variance
Multivariate Analysis of Covariance
Discriminant Function Analysis
Canonical Correlational
Logistic Regression
Principal Components Analysis and Factor Analysis
Path Analysis
Structural Equation Modeling
Meta-Analysis

Appendix: Tables
Table of the Normal Distribution
Table of Student’s t Distribution
Power Curves for Student’s t Distribution
Table of the Chi-Square Distribution
Table of Critical T Values for Wilcoxon’s Signed-Ranks and Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Tests
Table of the Binomial Distribution, Individual Probabilities
Table of the Binomial Distribution, Cumulative Probabilities
Table of Critical Values for the Single-Sample Runs Test
Table of the Fmax Distribution
Table of the F Distribution
Table of Critical Values for Mann–Whitney U Statistic
Table of Sandler’s A Statistic
Table of the Studentized Range Statistic
Table of Dunnett’s Modified t Statistic for a Control Group Comparison
Graphs of the Power Function for the Analysis of Variance
Table of Critical Values for Pearson r
Table of Fisher’s zr Transformation
Table of Critical Values for Spearman’s Rho
Table of Critical Values for Kendall’s Tau
Table of Critical Values for Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance
Table of Critical Values for the Kolmogorov–Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test for a Single Sample
Table of Critical Values for the Lilliefors Test for Normality
Table of Critical Values for the Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test for Two Independent Samples
Table of Critical Values for the Jonckheere–Terpstra Test Statistic
Table of Critical Values for the Page Test Statistic
Table of Extreme Studentized Deviate Outlier Statistic
Table of Durbin–Watson Test Statistic
Constants Used for Estimation and Construction of Control
Charts
Index