
Preface
This book has been written as a textbook for the second-year graduate course taught
by the author in the Master’s program in Applied Statistics at California State Uni-
versity, Long Beach. The goal of this course is to teach applications of nonparametric
methods in statistics, starting with the tests of hypotheses, and moving on to regres-
sion modeling, time-to-event analysis, density estimation and resampling methods.
Being a textbook, this book has abundant examples and exercises. The settings were
taken from various scientific disciplines: health sciences, psychology, social sciences,
education, and clinical trials, to name a few. The