Consider a population of 70 individuals, for which you wish to estimate the mean annual income, μ. Assume that you have decided to use the following estimation procedure to make your estimate: simple ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 46, No. 6 (June 2007), pp. 791-813 (23 pages) ABSTRACT Monthly rainfall estimates inferred from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) ...

At some point in your past, you have likely heard the fields of probability and statistics glued together, as “probabilityandstatistics.” The two fields are actually quite different: The domain of ...

Generalized variance functions (GVF's) are used in a number of sample surveys as a convenient method of publishing sampling errors. The method consists of estimating the relative variance (relvariance ...