let$ p_{n}(x)= sum_{i=0}^{n} a_{i}x^{i}$ be a random algebraicpolynomial, where $a_{0},a_{1}, cdots $ is a sequence of independent random variables belong to the domain of attraction of the normal law. thus $a_j$'s for $j=0,1cdots $ possesses the characteristic functions $exp {-frac{1}{2}t^{2}h_{j}(t)}$, where $h_j(t)$'s are complex slowlyvarying functions.under the assumption that th...

Recently, commentators have suggested that the distributional form of cost data should be explicitly modelled to gain efficiency in estimating the population mean. We perform a series of simulation experiments to evaluate the usual sample mean and the mean estimator of a lognormal distribution, in the context of both theoretical distributions and three large empirical datasets. The sample mean ...

This paper describes an approach to modeling the sums of a continuous random variable over a number of measurement occasions when the number of occasions also is a random variable. A typical example is summing the amounts of time spent attending to pieces of information in an information search task leading to a decision to obtain the total time taken to decide. Although there is a large litera...