A classification scheme for probability laws by tail behavior is proposed. It circumvents the smoothness conditions usually imposed on the probability laws by current classification schemes and yields ...

Covers discrete and continuous probability laws, random variables; expectations; laws of large numbers and central limit theorem; estimation, testing hypothesis, analysis of variance, regression ...

"Yes or no: was there once life on Mars?" I can't say. "What about intelligent life?"' That seems most unlikely, but again, I can't really say. The simple yes-or-no framework has no place for shadings ...

Truthlikeness is a property of a theory or a proposition that represents its closeness to the truth. We start by summarizing Niiniluoto’s (Truthlikeness, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987) proposal of ...

Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian coast last week when a humpback whale jumped clear out of the water and landed on their yacht. A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian ...

Quantum cognition applies principles derived from quantum theory to elucidate the non-classical probabilistic aspects of decision making. This interdisciplinary field challenges conventional, ...

In general, a scientific law is the description of an observed phenomenon. It doesn't explain why the phenomenon exists or what causes it. The explanation for a phenomenon is called a scientific ...