Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

This note suggests that expressing a distribution function as a mixture of suitably chosen distribution functions leads to improved methods for generating random variables in a computer. The idea is ...

Let {Xk, k ≥ 1} be a sequence of independent, identically distributed nonnegative random variables with common distribution function F and finite expectation $\mu > 0$. Under the assumption that the ...