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The Central Limit Theorem occasionally results in extremely slow convergence to the Normal distribution, making the corresponding approximation virtually useless (a typical example being the sample ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 4, Memorial issue for Charles Stein (August 2021), pp. 1850-1863 (14 pages) This paper is a short exposition of Stein’s method of normal approximation from my ...

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The current “normal” temperatures are, by definition, average temperatures over the 30-year period 1981-2010. The normals are recalculated once every 10 years and will next be updated for the period ...

dxxx(x,) returns the density or the value on the y-axis of a probability distribution for a discrete value of x pxxx(q,) returns the cumulative density function (CDF) or the area under the curve to ...

Normal force is a concept frequently encountered in the realms of physics and engineering. It refers to the perpendicular force exerted by a solid surface on an object resting or moving against it. In ...