Exact Analysis of Discrete Data

by Karim F. Hirji

Overview

Researchers in fields ranging from biology and medicine to the social sciences, law, and economics regularly encounter variables that are discrete or categorical in nature. While there is no dearth of books on the analysis and interpretation of such data, these generally focus on large sample methods. When sample sizes are not large or the data are

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040203248
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/18/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1066
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Discrete Distributions. One-Sided Univariate Analysis. Two-Sided Univariate Analysis. Computing Fundamentals. Elements of Conditional Analysis. Two 2o 2 Tables. Assessing Inference. Several 2 o 2 Tables: I. Several 2 o 2 Tables: Ii. The 2 o K Table. Polynomial Algorithms: I. Polynomial Algorithms: Ii. Multinomial Models. Matched and Dependent Data. Reflections on Exactness. References. Index.

Editorial Reviews

"The book’s infrastructure makes it a good candidate as a teaching resource. The chapters offer detailed worked example. Furthermore, each chapter includes exercises . . . some practitioners in discrete data analysis also will find this book useful."

– In Technometrics, August 2008, Vol. 50, No. 3

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