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 ...

We study the asymptotic covariance function of the sample mean and quantile, and derive a new and surprising characterization of the normal distribution: the asymptotic covariance between the sample ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 75, No. 1 (May 2013), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) Folded normal distribution arises when we try to find out the distribution of absolute ...

SAS/INSIGHT software provides tests for the null hypothesis that the input data values are a random sample from a normal distribution. These test statistics include the Shapiro-Wilk statistic (W) and ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has ...

You can use the CDFPLOT statement to fit any of six theoretical distributions (beta, exponential, gamma, lognormal, normal, and Weibull) and superimpose them on the cdf plot. The following statements ...