The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The Institute was formed at a ...

This article presents the shape of the price change frequency distribution for the S&P 500 over approximately six decades on a daily basis, monthly basis and calendar year basis. The degree of ...

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A knowledge of basic business statistics can help small business owners make and assess their decisions with greater accuracy. Frequency value is a basic business statistics term used to describe a ...

The statistical distributions of the counts of organisms are generally skewed, and hence not normally distributed, nor are variances constant across treatments. We present a likelihood-ratio testing ...