It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

Consider a sequence ($X_{k}\colon k\geq 0$) of regularly varying independent and identically distributed random variables with mean 0 and finite variance. We develop ...

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Sampling is a technique in which samples are drawn at random (without any favor or bias). For this, suitable measures or procedures may be laid down and adopted according to the nature and ...