Overview
- Especially for people working in the re-sampling approximation area or applying re-sampling approximations to other areas
- Re-sampling approximation has been one of the most important tools in statistical analysis and this book features a new approach as to apply it
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics (LNS, volume 182)
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About this book
A fundamental issue in statistical analysis is testing the fit of a particular probability model to a set of observed data. Monte Carlo approximation to the null distribution of the test provides a convenient and powerful means of testing model fit. Nonparametric Monte Carlo Tests and Their Applications proposes a new Monte Carlo-based methodology to construct this type of approximation when the model is semistructured. When there are no nuisance parameters to be estimated, the nonparametric Monte Carlo test can exactly maintain the significance level, and when nuisance parameters exist, this method can allow the test to asymptotically maintain the level.
The author addresses both applied and theoretical aspects of nonparametric Monte Carlo tests. The new methodology has been used for model checking in many fields of statistics, such as multivariate distribution theory, parametric and semiparametric regression models, multivariate regression models, varying-coefficient models with longitudinal data, heteroscedasticity, and homogeneity of covariance matrices. This book will be of interest to both practitioners and researchers investigating goodness-of-fit tests and resampling approximations.
Every chapter of the book includes algorithms, simulations, and theoretical deductions. The prerequisites for a full appreciation of the book are a modest knowledge of mathematical statistics and limit theorems in probability/empirical process theory. The less mathematically sophisticated reader will find Chapters 1, 2 and 6 to be a comprehensible introduction on how and where the new method can apply and the rest of the book to be a valuable reference for Monte Carlo test approximation and goodness-of-fit tests.
Lixing Zhu is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Hong Kong. He is a winner of the Humboldt Research Award at Alexander-von Humboldt Foundation of Germany and an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
From the reviews:
"These lecture notes discuss several topics in goodness-of-fit testing, a classical area in statistical analysis. … The mathematical part contains detailed proofs of the theoretical results. Simulation studies illustrate the quality of the Monte Carlo approximation. … this book constitutes a recommendable contribution to an active area of current research." Winfried Stute for Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2006
"...Overall, this is an interesting book, which gives a nice introduction to this new and specific field of resampling methods." Dongsheng Tu for Biometrics, September 2006
Reviews
From the reviews:
"These lecture notes discuss several topics in goodness-of-fit testing, a classical area in statistical analysis. … The mathematical part contains detailed proofs of the theoretical results. Simulation studies illustrate the quality of the Monte Carlo approximation. … this book constitutes a recommendable contribution to an active area of current research." Winfried Stute for Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2006
"...Overall, this is an interesting book, which gives a nice introduction to this new and specific field of resampling methods." Dongsheng Tu for Biometrics, September 2006
"Nonparametric Monte Carlo tests (NMCT) are more and more used everywhere when standard theory fails … . The author of this concise monograph shows several fields where NMCT procedures can be effectively used … . I recommend this book not only to everybody who is deeply interested in Monte Carlo simulations but also to those interested in asymptotics and bootstrap." (Jaromir Antoch, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1094 (20), 2006)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nonparametric Monte Carlo Tests and Their Applications
Authors: Lixing Zhu
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29053-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25038-0Published: 09 August 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-29053-9Published: 08 April 2006
Series ISSN: 0930-0325
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7186
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 184
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Statistical Theory and Methods