This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and ...

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 ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 40, No. 6 (December 2012), pp. 3050-3076 (27 pages) A random-walk Metropolis sampler is geometrically ergodic if its equilibrium density is super-exponentially light and ...