Imagine you're at a fair, and you see a booth with a giant dartboard. The booth owner challenges you to hit the bullseye. You take your shot, and the dart lands somewhere on the board. Now imagine ...

De Moivre's original derivation of the normal curve in a 7 page Note in Latin and its English translations in the 1738 and 1756 editions of his The Doctrine of Chances are described. Karl Pearson's ...

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THIS little volume is a kind of “Molesworth” for the statistical biologist. Some two-thirds of the book are taken up with numerical tables (ordinates of normal curve, probability integral, gamma ...

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 ...

Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has announced its open platform for catastrophe risk management is now a fully probabilistic loss estimation tool capable of generating exceedence probability (EP) curves, ...