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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 19, No. 3 (1970), pp. 240-250 (11 pages) A model for consumer purchasing behaviour is proposed which is based on the ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 33, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1971), pp. 217-224 (8 pages) Suppose that ${\rm L}(\psi,\theta)=(\psi ...

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The binomial distribution is an important discrete distribution. It gives the probability of the number of "successes," in a sequence of n independent binary trials. This applet allows users to drag ...