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Random analytic functions are a fundamental object of study in modern complex analysis and probability theory. These functions, often defined through power series with random coefficients, exhibit ...

Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

The Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution. It gives the probability of a certain number of events occurring during a fixed interval. This web calculator allows users to specify ...

Recently there has been growing interest in applying elliptical distributions to risk management. Under certain conditions, Hult and Lindskog show that a random vector with an elliptical distribution ...

Tsao (1954) deficumulative distribution function Sn(x) = k/n if $X_k \leqq x < X_{k + 1}$, where X0 = -∞ and Xn + 1 = ∞. Let $Y_1 < Y_2 < \cdots < Y_m$ represent ...