Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Model Validity || Karl Pearson and the Chi-Squared Test

✍ Scribed by Huber-Carol, C.; Balakrishnan, N.; Nikulin, M. S.; Mesbah, M.

• Book ID: 120072843
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1002 KB
• Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1461201039
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0103-8_1

✦ Synopsis

The 37 expository articles in this volume provide broad coverage of important topics relating to the theory, methods, and applications of goodness-of-fit tests and model validity. The book is divided into eight parts, each of which presents topics written by expert researchers in their areas.   Key features include:   * state-of-the-art exposition of modern model validity methods, graphical techniques, and computer-intensive methods   * systematic presentation with sufficient history and coverage of the fundamentals of the subject   * exposure to recent research and a variety of open problems   * many interesting real-life examples for practitioners   * extensive bibliography, with special emphasis on recent literature   * subject index   This comprehensive reference work will serve the statistical and applied mathematics communities as well as practitioners in the field.