The paper gives some personal recollections of the development of mathematical probability theory and its applications to statistical inference during the twenty years between the two world wars, ...
Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...
Scientists should stop using the term 'statistically significant' in their research, researchers urge. Scientists should stop using the term 'statistically significant' in their research, urges this ...
Non-parametric tests are used when standard assumptions are not available. These tests don’t rely on distributions, often ...
The singular value decomposition is widely used to approximate data matrices with lower rank matrices. Feng and He [Ann. Appl. Stat. 3 (2009) 1634-1654] developed tests on dimensionality of the mean ...