This article addresses a gap in many, if not all, introductory mathematical statistics textbooks, namely, transforming a random variable so that it better mimics a normal distribution. Virtually all ...

This paper deals with the order statistics from the normal distribution. Equations are obtained for the percentage points and the modal values of the kth order statistic in a sample of size n. Table I ...

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 ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. T-tests are ...

The t-distribution (or Student's t-distribution) has similarities to the normal distribution in shape, but with heavier tails. This applet allows users to drag a slider to change the degrees of ...