Geoff Cumming receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Such research findings sound exciting because the word significant suggests important and large. But researchers often use the word ...

In this program, the quasi-Newton technique is used to maximize the likelihood function. You can replace the quasi-Newton routine by other optimization routines, such as the NLPNRR subroutine, which ...

A class of linear combinations of order statistics (LCOSs) based on a random sample drawn from an arbitrary distribution is represented as a sum of independent and identically distributed random ...