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The Central Limit Theorem is a statistical concept applied to large data distributions. It says that as you randomly sample data from a distribution, the means and standard deviations of the samples ...

The estimates of the parameters of the generalized geometric distribution are obtained by using ranked set sampling procedure. These estimates are compared with the ordered least squares estimates ...

Lio et al (2010a, b) introduced two single acceptance sampling plans (SASPs) for the percentiles of Birnbaum-Saunders and Burr type XII distribution with a truncated censoring scheme. They assured ...