Applying Contemporary Statistical Techniques explains why traditional statistical methods are often inadequate or outdated when applied to modern problems. Wilcox demonstrates how new and more powerful techniques address these problems far more effectively, making these modern robust methods underst[...]
Provides an explanation of the foundation of robust methods, incorporating R and S-Plus, robust ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) and regression. This work focuses on the practical applications of robust methods. It covers developments in robust regression, and improvements in ANOVA. It also includes ran[...]
In addition to learning how to apply classic statistical methods, students need to understand when these methods perform well, and when and why they can be highly unsatisfactory. Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences illustrates how to use R to apply both standard and modern metho[...]
Conventional statistical methods have a very serious flaw. They routinely miss differences among groups or associations among variables that are detected by more modern techniques - even under very small departures from normality. Hundreds of journal articles have described the reasons standard tech[...]