A sequential fixed-width confidence interval for the mean of a U-statistic, having coverage probability approximately equal to preassigned α, is presented. The main result, Theorem 2, shows that the ...

An individual's confidence is a translation of the brain's statistical assessments, a new study has suggested. The subjective feeling of confidence is derived from objective calculations similar to ...

A kernel regression imputation method for missing response data is developed. A class of bias-corrected empirical log-likelihood ratios for the response mean is defined. It is shown that any member of ...

It’s another episode of Confidence Interval, where we make a persuasive case for a hot take we’ve been hearing … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the idea. This time, FiveThirtyEight ...