Business, like many other fields, can benefit from the use of statistics in estimating or predicting future events. An important tool for business statistics is a confidence interval, which helps a ...

Identify characteristics of “good” estimators and be able to compare competing estimators. Construct sound estimators using the techniques of maximum likelihood and method of moments estimation.

Geoff Cumming receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Such research findings sound exciting because the word significant suggests important and large. But researchers often use the word ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Age-specific reference intervals are commonly used in the routine monitoring of individuals, where interest lies in the detection of extreme ...

Estimation of the sojourn time on the preclinical detectable period in disease screening or transition rates for the natural history of chronic disease usually rely on interval cases (diagnosed ...

For more than 40 years, null-hypothesis significance testing and P values have been questioned by statistical commentators, their utility criticized on philosophical and practical grounds 1. Luckily, ...