Robust Methods in Biostatistics

by Eva Cantoni, Stephane Heritier, Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, et al.

Robust statistics is an extension of classical statistics that specifically takes into account the concept that the underlying models used to describe data are only approximate. Its basic philosophy is to produce statistical procedures which are stable when the data do not exactly match the postulated models as it is the case for example with outliers.

Robust Methods in Biostatistics proposes robust alternatives to common methods used in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470027266
• ISBN13: 9780470027264
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"