Abstract: Sums of Weibull variates arise in several communications fields, such as optical, mobile, and radar systems. However, due to the intricate task of evaluating the Weibull sums, only a few ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations consist of 17 general objectives, subdivided into 169 targets to be achieved by 2030. Several SDG indices and indicators require ...

Abstract: An information-theoretic proof of a strengthened version of the classical discrete central limit theorem is presented. Using only information-theoretic and elementary arguments, convergence ...

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The statistical relationship between human height and weight is of especial importance to clinical medicine, epidemiology, and the biology of human development. Yet, after more than a century of ...

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Repeated measures correlation (rmcorr) is a statistical technique for determining the common within-individual association for paired measures assessed on two or more occasions for multiple ...

Secret communication over public channels is one of the central pillars of a modern information society. Using quantum key distribution this is achieved without relying on the hardness of mathematical ...

In the multiple-items auction problem, a seller wants to sell k different items to n bidders who have private values, drawn from some probability distributions, for these items. Economists are ...