About this Book

The 37 expository articles in this volume provide broad coverage of important topics relating to the theory, methods, and applications of goodness-of-fit tests and model validity. The book is divided into eight parts, each of which presents topics written by expert researchers in their areas.

Key features include:

* state-of-the-art exposition of modern model validity methods, graphical techniques, and computer-intensive methods

* systematic presentation with sufficient history and coverage of the fundamentals of the subject

* exposure to recent research and a variety of open problems

* many interesting real-life examples for practitioners

* extensive bibliography, with special emphasis on recent literature

* subject index

This comprehensive reference work will serve the statistical and applied mathematics communities as well as practitioners in the field.