Nonparametric Methods in Statistics with SAS Applications

Hypotheses Testing for Two Samples
Sign Test for Location Parameter for Matched Paired Samples
Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for Location Parameter for Matched Paired Samples
Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test for Location Parameter for Two Independent Samples
Ansari-Bradley Test for Scale Parameter for Two Independent Samples
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test for Equality of Distributions

Hypotheses Testing for Several Samples
Friedman Rank Test for Location Parameter for Several Dependent Samples
Kruskal-Wallis H-Test for Location Parameter for Several Independent Samples

Tests for Categorical Data
Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient Test
Fisher Exact Test

Nonparametric Regression
Loess Regression
Thin-Plate Smoothing Spline Method

Nonparametric Generalized Additive Regression
Definition
Nonparametric Binary Logistic Model
Nonparametric Poisson Model

Time-to-Event Analysis
Kaplan-Meier Estimator of Survival Function
Log-Rank Test for Comparison of Two Survival Functions
Cox Proportional Hazards Model

Univariate Probability Density Estimation
Histogram
Kernel Density Estimator

Resampling Methods for Interval Estimation
Jackknife
Bootstrap

Appendix A: Tables
Appendix B: Answers to Exercises

Recommended Books

Index of Notation

Index