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Example 1: The population from which samples are selected is {1,2,3,4,5,6}. This population has a mean of 3.5 and a standard deviation of 1.70783. The next display shows a histogram of the population.

Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

The object of this paper is the development of a theory of optimal one-sample goodness-of-fit tests and of optimal two-sample randomized distribution-free (DF) statistics analogous to the well-known ...

When an experiment is reproduced we almost never obtain exactly the same results. Instead, repeated measurements span a range of values because of biological variability and precision limits of ...

On June 8, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) issued temporary guidance to address concerns related to distribution of drug samples during the COVID-19 public health emergency. 1 ...