Stats, Volume 2, Issue 3

Negative spatial autocorrelation is one of the most neglected concepts in quantitative geography, regional science, and spatial statistics/econometrics in general. This paper focuses on and contributes to the literature in terms of the following thre...

The popular concept of slash distribution is generalized by considering the quotient Z = X/Y of independent random variables X and Y, where X is any continuous random variable and Y has a general beta distribution. The density of Z can usually be exp...

In this paper, we use a corpus of about 100,000 happy moments written by people of different genders, marital statuses, parenthood statuses, and ages to explore the following questions: Are there differences between men and women, married and unmarri...

Classification has applications in a wide range of fields including medicine, engineering, computer science and social sciences among others. In statistical terms, classification is inference about the unknown parameters, i.e., the true classes of fu...