Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

This column is the fourth in a series on parameter estimation, leading up to the justly famous Kalman filter. The discipline is based on the fact that our knowledge of the state of any real-world ...

You can use the CDFPLOT statement to fit any of six theoretical distributions (beta, exponential, gamma, lognormal, normal, and Weibull) and superimpose them on the cdf plot. The following statements ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and ...

Recent advances in estimation techniques have underscored the growing importance of shrinkage estimation and balanced loss functions in the analysis of multivariate normal distributions. These ...

The market demand curve and the normal curve are different in several different ways. The shape of the demand curve, its purpose and the function that defines it are all different from that of the ...

I want a random number, between 0 and 1 (for the purposes, this is JavaScript, but that shouldn't matter so much). But I don't just want a uniform distribution of numbers, I want something skewed, so ...

Let X1, ·, Xn be n independent random vectors, Xν = (X(1) ν, ⋯, X(r) ν), and Φ(x1, ⋯, xm) a function of m(≤ n) vectors $x_\nu = (x^{(1)}_\nu, \cdots, x^{(r ...