A random variable is a mathematical function that maps outcomes of random experiments to numbers. It can be thought of as the numeric result of operating a non-deterministic mechanism or performing a ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 47, No. 2 (1998), pp. 377-383 (7 pages) In medical and social surveys a large number of multiply correlated explanatory ...

Let $Y_1, \cdots, Y_r$ be independent random variables, each uniformly distributed on $\mathscr{M} = \{1,2, \cdots, M\}$. It is shown that at most $N = 1 + M + \cdots ...