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(More customer reviews)I am a professor of Linguistics with an interest in applying contemporary statistics to my field. People in my field have rarely heard of many of the modern methods mentioned here, such as bootstrapping, Winsorizing, 20% means trimming, etc. Wilcox does a great job of making this information accessible and convincing the reader of the need for more modern methods of statistics. What I especially like is that these methods are much more practical for applied research than traditional theoretical statistics based on assumptions of normality and homogeneity of variance (which we rarely find in real data!).The best feature of this book, however, is that Wilcox has written scripts for S-PLUS and R so that you can actually APPLY what he recommends in an easy-to-implement way. The text tells you where to find the commands, and then uses them to perform the necessary tests. When I had a problem getting one of the commands to work correctly, I emailed Wilcox and he promptly gave me a revised version of it that worked. I heartily recommend this book to anyone trying to get up to speed on more modern methods of statistics. I think it would be an excellent book for a research methods course in any social science field where 'classic' statistics are regularly done.
And I do note that I have read this actual book! Wilcox does have an entire chapter on nonparametric tests in this book.
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