The first step is to ensure that the given distribution actually is a valid probability distribution. As mentioned earlier, this involves checking two key properties: non-negativity and summation to ...

In statistical practice P-values are regularly used to express the amount of evidence in the data, but there is no agreement on how to compute two-sided P-values when the sampling distributions are ...

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Brussels Free University, "The present paper provides discrete convex extrema for several situations of this type. The starting point is ...

Testing of hypotheses for discrete distributions is considered in this paper. The goal is to develop conditional frequentist tests that allow the reporting of data ...

As America’s healthcare system continues to evolve, it is critical that our perception of care and its value to patients evolve with it. In the past, value assessments have marginalized patients’ ...