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Prescriptions for Working Statisticians

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Albert Madansky

    1. Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. A Thoughtful Student’s Retrospective on Statistics 101

    • Albert Madansky
    Pages 1-13

  3. Testing for Normality

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    Pages 14-55

  4. Testing for Homoscedasticity

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    Pages 56-91

  5. Testing for Independence of Observations

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    Pages 92-119

  6. Identification of Outliers

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    Pages 120-147

  7. Transformations

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    Pages 148-180

  8. Independent Variable Selection in Multiple Regression

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    Pages 181-213

  9. Categorical Variables in Regression

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    Pages 214-251

  10. Analysis of Cross-Classified Data

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    Pages 252-287

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 289-295
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About this book

The first course in statistics, no matter how "good" or "long" it is, typically covers inferential procedures which are valid only if a number of preconditions are satisfied by the data. For example, students are taught about regression procedures valid only if the true residuals are independent, homoscedastic, and normally distributed. But they do not learn how to check for indepen­ dence, homoscedasticity, or normality, and certainly do not learn how to adjust their data and/or model so that these assumptions are met. To help this student out! I designed a second course, containing a collec­ tion of statistical diagnostics and prescriptions necessary for the applied statistician so that he can deal with the realities of inference from data, and not merely with the kind of classroom problems where all the data satisfy the assumptions associated with the technique to be taught. At the same time I realized that I was writing a book for a wider audience, namely all those away from the classroom whose formal statistics education ended with such a course and who apply statistical techniques to data.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Albert Madansky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Prescriptions for Working Statisticians

  • Authors: Albert Madansky

  • Series Title: Springer Texts in Statistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3794-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8354-6Published: 22 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3794-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-875X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-4136

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 295

  • Topics: Applications of Mathematics

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