This second edition focuses on modeling unbalanced data. It presents many new topics, including new chapters on logistic regression, log-linear models, and time-to-event data. It shows how to model main-effects and interactions and introduces nonparametric, lasso, and generalized additive regression models. The text carefully analyzes small unbalanced data by using tools that are easily scaled to big data. R, Minitab®, and SAS codes are available on the author's website.
Praise for the First Edition:
"... written in a clear and lucid style ... an excellent candidate for a beginning level graduate textbook on statistical methods ... a useful reference for practitioners."
-Zentralblatt für Mathematik
"Being devoted to students mainly, each chapter includes illustrative examples and exercises. The most important thing about this book is that it provides traditional tools for future approaches in the big data domain since, as the author says, the machine learning techniques are directly based on the fundamental statistical methods."
~Marina Gorunescu (Craiova)
"... written in a clear and lucid style ... an excellent candidate for a beginning level graduate textbook on statistical methods ... a useful reference for practitioners."
-Zentralblatt für Mathematik
"Being devoted to students mainly, each chapter includes illustrative examples and exercises. The most important thing about this book is that it provides traditional tools for future approaches in the big data domain since, as the author says, the machine learning techniques are directly based on the fundamental statistical methods."
~Marina Gorunescu (Craiova)







