Archive for February, 1961

Estimates of Bounded Relative Error for the Mean Life of an Exponential Distribution

BENJAMIN EPSTEIN Wayne ,Etate University and Stanford Uniwrsitj In this note we find an estimation procedure for the mean life 19 having a small relative error. Put more precisely, we show how to get an estimate which is, with some preassigned confidence 1 - cy, within a certain percentage (100% Read more


Wednesday, February 22nd, 1961

Multiple Comparisons with a Control in Balanced Incomplete Block Designs

D. S. ROBSON Cornell University This paper shows that Dunnett’s procedure for making multiple comparisons of several treatments against a single control can be used on the adjusted treatment means from balanced incomplete block designs. download: Read more


Wednesday, February 22nd, 1961

Outliers in Patterned Experiments: A Strategic Appraisal

IRWIN D. J. BROSS Roswell Park Memorial institute Two papers “Rejection of Outliers” by F. J. Anscombe and “Locating Ontliers in Factorial Experiments” by C. Daniel were presented at the Christmas, 1959 meetings of the American Statistical Association. These papers, plus a discussion by Read more


Wednesday, February 22nd, 1961

An Asymptotic Distribution for an Occupancy Problem with Statistical Applications

M. HALPERIN AND G. L. BURROWS Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Given a population of N items D of which are defective. Let the population be divided at random into k lots of equal size s (i.e. N = k-s). This paper derives the asymptotic distribution (k + m ) of the number of lots containing z or Read more


Wednesday, February 22nd, 1961

Multi-Component Systems and Structures and Their Reliability

Z. W. BIRNBAUM*, J. D. ESARY AND S. C. SAUNDERS * University of Washington and Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories A number of recent publications have dealt with problems of analyzing the performance of multi-component systems and evaluating their reliability. For example, a comprehensive Read more


Saturday, February 18th, 1961

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