Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 38, No. 1 (Feb., 1976), pp. 62-67 (6 pages) Positive valued estimators are proposed for the positive mean of a normal distribution ...

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Statisticians frequently assume that data follow a normal distribution when developing statistical methods and performing practical data analysis. In most introductory statistics textbooks, the ...

The normal distribution (also known as the Gaussian distribution) is arguably the most important distribution in Statistics. It is often used to represent continuous random variables occurring in ...

This column is the fourth in a series on parameter estimation, leading up to the justly famous Kalman filter. The discipline is based on the fact that our knowledge of the state of any real-world ...