Comparing Groups and Studying Associations
 
Prof. Rand Wilcox
University of Southern California, USA.

Abstract:

The goal is to provide a brief outline of a variety of new results and methods when comparing groups and studying associations. Included will be results on global smoothers versus generalized additive models, comments on comparing the marginal medians of dependent groups, some extensions and generalizatioins of certain rank-based methods, a new ANCOVA method that allows multiple groups and multiple covariates, inferences about robust versions of the generalized variance, and comments on estimating correlation curves.

Keywords:

smoothers, generalized additive models, generalized variance, ANCOVA, medians