Empirical likelihood methods have emerged as a robust, non‐parametric framework for statistical inference that skilfully bypasses the need for strong parametric assumptions. By constructing likelihood ...

Introduction -- Distributors -- Introduction to measures of central value and dispersion -- Population and sample -- The normal distribution -- Statistical inference: estimation and tests -- Inference ...

Description: Introduction to the basic techniques of statistical analysis applicable to sociological data. Elementary descriptive statistics and statistical inference. Introduction to multivariate ...