A general method is proposed for testing the fit to any member of the invariant under convolutions family of count models, parameterized by mean and variance. The test statistics, which are of the ...

This course is available on the MSc in Risk and Stochastics, MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) and MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research). This course is available with permission ...

The kin number problem concerns the relationship between the distribution of the number of offspring of a randomly chosen individual in a population, and that of the number of relatives of various ...

As is well known, the normal distribution is a key tool in probability and statistics. It can be described as a distribution that obeys a universal rule derived from one of the most important theorems ...