The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 1202-1225 (24 pages) This paper analyzes the performance of importance sampling distributions for computing expectations with respect ...

Types of data - Concepts of a Statistical population and sample from a population ; qualitative and quantitative data ; nominal and ordinal data ; cross sectional and time series data; discrete and ...

Goodness-of-fit testing forms a fundamental pillar in statistical methodology, providing robust tools to assess whether observed data conform to a proposed probability distribution. These tests are ...

A one-tailed test in statistics is used to determine if a sample mean ... The region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution in a one-tailed test. To compare the portfolio's ...

This paper presents the results of a limited investigation which brings into focus the difficulties encountered in developing exact distribution-free methods for stratified simple random sampling. It ...

When an experiment is reproduced we almost never obtain exactly the same results. Instead, repeated measurements span a range of values because of biological variability and precision limits of ...

This course is available to General Course ‘Spring Semester’ students conditional on having studied Michaelmas term content remotely. Note ST102 is part-examined in January. The course provides a ...