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The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The Institute was formed at a ...

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, ...

The normal distribution (also known as the Gaussian distribution) is arguably the most important distribution in Statistics. It is often used to represent continuous random variables occurring in ...