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Informally, in frequentist statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is an interval which is expected to typically contain the parameter being estimated....

Multiplication (often denoted by the cross symbol ×, by the mid-line dot operator ⋅, by juxtaposition, or, on computers, by an asterisk *) is one of the...

The design of experiments (DOE or DOX), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain...

In epidemiology, a risk factor or determinant is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection.: 38  Due to a lack of harmonization...

A tolerance interval (TI) is a statistical interval within which, with some confidence level, a specified sampled proportion of a population falls. "More...

Quadratic programming (QP) is the process of solving certain mathematical optimization problems involving quadratic functions. Specifically, one seeks...

The notion of a fibration generalizes the notion of a fiber bundle and plays an important role in algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics. Fibrations...

Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves...

The Johnson's SU-distribution is a four-parameter family of probability distributions first investigated by N. L. Johnson in 1949. Johnson proposed it...

The revelation principle is a fundamental result in mechanism design, social choice theory, and game theory which shows it is always possible to design...

The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem is a theorem in voting theory. It was first conjectured by the philosopher Michael Dummett and the mathematician Robin...

A jump process is a type of stochastic process that has discrete movements, called jumps, with random arrival times, rather than continuous movement, typically...

In game theory and political science, Poisson games are a class of games often used to model the behavior of large populations. One common application...

In metaphysics, a causal model (or structural causal model) is a conceptual model that describes the causal mechanisms of a system. Several types of causal...

In cryptography, a message authentication code based on universal hashing, or UMAC, is a type of message authentication code (MAC) calculated choosing...

In coding theory, block codes are a large and important family of error-correcting codes that encode data in blocks. There is a vast number of examples...

In knot theory, Conway notation, invented by John Horton Conway, is a way of describing knots that makes many of their properties clear. It composes a...

In mathematics, and particularly category theory, a coherence condition is a collection of conditions requiring that various compositions of elementary...

Combinatorics on words is a fairly new field of mathematics, branching from combinatorics, which focuses on the study of words and formal languages. The...

Complete spatial randomness (CSR) describes a point process whereby point events occur within a given study area in a completely random fashion. It is...