​​Throw AI a vague question, and what you'll get back will likely sound plausible enough to be true, even if the question isn ...

Abstract: This work establishes regularity conditions for consistency and asymptotic normality of the multiple parameter maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) from censored data, where the censoring ...

Elon Musk plans to turn his newly appointed role slashing U.S. government bureaucracy into a game. Appointed to run the newly created "Department of Government Efficiency", or DOGE, the Tesla CEO aims ...

Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, and Statistics (COSMOS), The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA. 2. The Standard and MLE P-Values The notion of P-value is a fundamental tool ...

PMP is currently defined in the United States as: Theoretically, the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular ...

A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway. This study ...

Abstract: A maximum likelihood (ML) method is known to produce inconsistent estimators if the likelihood function is unbounded from above, e.g., in models with heavy-tailed distribution or unknown ...

Methods for calculating return values of extreme precipitation and their uncertainty are compared using daily precipitation rates over the Western U.S. and Southwestern Canada from a large ensemble of ...