Everyone agrees the normal distribution isn't a great statistical model for stock market returns, but no generally accepted alternative has emerged. A bottom-up simulation points to the Laplace ...

The normal distribution is a concept in statistics that assumes all values are distributed in the same pattern. It requires symmetry and consistent proportions in the distribution of values. Normal ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract For the problem of estimating a p-variate normal mean, the existence of confidence procedures which dominate the usual one, a sphere centered ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider sequential procedures for obtaining confidence intervals of prescribed length and confidence coefficient for the mean of a normal ...