Description: The binomial transform is a transformation that takes a sequence as an input and gives another sequence as an output according to a certain rule. As an example, we have that the binomial ...

I shall describe a practical classroom exercise in applied statistics, which has an impressive effect on the students who are beginning to learn statistics. This is based on a remarkable paper by ...

We derive a first-order bias-corrected maximum likelihood estimator for the negative binomial dispersion parameter. This estimator is compared, in terms of bias and efficiency, with the maximum ...