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Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 65, No. 3 (APRIL 2016), pp. 395-414 (20 pages) Motivated by an imaging study, the paper develops a non-parametric testing ...

In life and fatique testing, multi-censored samples arise when at various stages of a test, some of the survivors are withdrawn from further observation. Sample specimens which remain after each stage ...

In their simulated system, image data is first simplified using a process called principal component analysis (PCA), which reduces the amount of information while preserving key features. A complex ...

There is some overlap -- but they're fundamentally different. Java instrumentation will track each and every instance of a given metric. This can create performance issues. Java sampling involves ...