The accuracy of three estimators of sampling variance using non-replacement probability lattice samples was determined empirically on a microuniverse. A simple split-sample scheme, although biased, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We prove that the convolution of a selfdecomposable distribution with its background driving law is again selfdecomposable if and only if the ...

In A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, published in 1814, Pierre-Simon Laplace introduced a notorious hypothetical creature: a “vast intelligence” that knew the complete physical state of the ...