I've become alarmed recently at the number of young engineers (i.e. those with less than 5 years of work experience), who seem to have missed the college course on applied probability and don't know ...

We consider a very general class of empirical discrepancy statistics that includes the Cressie-Read discrepancy statistics and, in particular, the empirical likelihood ratio statistic. Higher-order ...

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 ...

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 ...

We indicate the applicability of a Bayesian method of estimating a mean in the face of mean-shift contamination. Simple approximate Bayesian "confidence interval" formulas are obtained by ...