A slippage problem for normal distributions is formulated as a multiple decision problem, and a solution is obtained which has certain optimum properties. The discussion is confined to the fixed ...

What exactly is an Anderson-Darling test? Testing for normality is often the first step in analyzing your data. Many statistical tools you might use have normality as an underlying assumption. If you ...

Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in the accounting and finance industries for more than 20 years. Her expertise covers a ...

This column is the fourth in a series on parameter estimation, leading up to the justly famous Kalman filter. The discipline is based on the fact that our knowledge of the state of any real-world ...