The core concepts of combinatorics, expectation, variance, conditional probability/expectation/distributions, covariance, and correlation will be motivated and explored through discrete and continuous ...

Variance and bias comparisons are set forth for a sequence of nonlinear statistics based on independent random variables including jackknife and U-statistics of various orders. The analysis relies ...

In a number of situations we are faced with the problem of determining efficient estimates of the mean and variance of a distribution specified by (i) a non-zero probability that the variable assumes ...