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 ...

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 ...

Let $Y_1, \cdots, Y_r$ be independent random variables, each uniformly distributed on $\mathscr{M} = \{1,2, \cdots, M\}$. It is shown that at most $N = 1 + M + \cdots ...

This paper reviews and discusses what is known about the relationship between identity in state, allele frequency, inbreeding coefficients, and identity by descent in various uses of these terms.