This note suggests that expressing a distribution function as a mixture of suitably chosen distribution functions leads to improved methods for generating random variables in a computer. The idea is ...

Spacings (that is, the differences between successive order statistics) are useful in various applications in statistics. Many properties of the spacing are known when the spacings are constructed ...

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