Recent advances in estimation techniques have underscored the growing importance of shrinkage estimation and balanced loss functions in the analysis of multivariate normal distributions. These ...

We study the asymptotic covariance function of the sample mean and quantile, and derive a new and surprising characterization of the normal distribution: the asymptotic covariance between the sample ...

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique Loss functions and admissible estimators of the variance are considered with reference to a ...

Research shows up to 22% of prediabetic individuals achieve remission without weight loss, emphasizing metabolic health over ...

Remission of prediabetes can occur even without weight loss, protecting against type 2 diabetes in up to 22% of individuals.