Gibbons J.D., Chakraborti S. Nonparametric Statistical Inference

5th Edition. — Hoboken: CRC Press, 2010. — 652 p. — e-ISBN: 978-1-4200-7762-9.In the fifth edition of this book, we are going to digress from tradition and write a new preface that will replace all earlier prefaces.Specifically, for the fifth edition, we have:
Entirely revised the textual material on at least 50% of the topics covered in the fourth edition to make it more readable and reader friendly;
Updated many of the topics with material from more recent journal articles in the literature;
Added a new section under goodness of fit tests in Chapter 4;
Added a new Chapter 15 with practical guidance on how to choose among the various nonparametric procedures covered in the book;
Reorganized some of the chapters, moving some old material into he new Chapter 14;
Added some new problems and moved some problems from one chapter to another when appropriate;
Redone a lot of the computer figures to make them more readable and hence user friendly.