The problem of estimating the variance of the ratio estimator in sampling with probability proportional to aggregate size is investigated. The form of nonnegative unbiased variance estimators is found ...

Researchers compared the estimation of the presence of disease by primary care clinicians and an expert panel. Primary care clinicians overestimate the probability of disease before and after ...

Statisticians who study coincidences are fond of saying that ordinary people don’t know how to estimate the probabilities of coincidences. To illustrate our poor statistical thinking, statisticians ...

When evaluating a patient with stable chest pain and no known coronary artery disease (CAD), how does the clinician decide whether to order imaging or other diagnostic tests? One approach involves a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1 Extinction is a fundamental topic for population ecology and especially for conservation and metapopulation biology. Most empirical studies ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a recent survey study, nearly 80% of physicians overestimated the probability of successful patient outcomes ...

Learn to apply Bayes' theorem in financial forecasting for insightful, updated predictions. Enhance decision-making with ...