The rich get richer or success breeds success effect, also called Matthew’s principle from the parable of the Talents in Matthiew 25:14-30), has been invoked many times in the sociology of science to ...

For a spherically symmetric multivariate normal random sample, the asymptotic distribution of the largest interpoint Euclidean distance is derived. The number of interpoint distances exceeding a high ...

In this article we review two historical approximations to the Poisson and binomial cumulative distribution functions (CDFs); that is, the Wilson—Hilferty and Camp—Paulson approximations. Both of ...