Nonparametric Statistics For Social And Behavioral Sciences

Authors: Berk, Richard A.
Offers accessible coverage on statistical learning procedures for practitioners
Examines a wide array of real applications
Presents intuitive explanations and visual representation of underlying statistical concepts

This textbook considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of the response variable, given a set of predictors, and when it is important to characterize how the predictors are related to the response. As a first approximation, this can be seen as an extension of nonparametric regression.