The purpose of this paper is to graphically illustrate the parametric relationships between pairs of 35 univariate distribution families. The families are organized into a seven-by-five matrix and the relationships are illustrated by connecting related families with arrows. A simplified matrix, showing only 25 families, is designed for student use. These relationships provide rapid access to in...

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Background: The main purpose of criminal law must be to secure the basic human rights or fundamental rights of individuals. But the matter is the relationship between morality and human rights. For the purpose of the science of morality is to bring humanity to the highest degree of humanity, and the purpose of law is to achieve relative justice and to restore order in society. Equity is also a ...

INTRODUCTION On average, less than 8% of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survive. However, death from sudden cardiac arrest is preventable if a bystander quickly retrieves and applies an automated external defibrillator (AED). Public access defibrillation (PAD) policies have been enacted to create programs that increase the public availability of these devices. The objec...

Governments and regulators are saddled with the burden of introducing and enforcing compliance to the right laws and regulations in order to address specific needs of our dynamic contemporary society. Irrespective of the instruments or mechanisms they use, they are often concerned with over or under-regulation, as well as regulatory effectiveness. Despite advances in the use of Information Syst...

We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians avoid tax increases in election years. These contain 3 useful attributes: (1) when state enact laws, (2) implement laws consumers firms, (3) the size of changes. Using a pre-analysis research plan that includes regressions rate changes enactment years time-to-gubernatorial year i...

Preventing youth smoking initiation is a priority for tobacco control programs, because most adult tobacco smokers become addicted during adolescence. Interventions that restrict the affordability, accessibility, and marketing of cigarettes have been effective in reducing youth cigarette smoking. However, increasing numbers of youth are smoking tobacco using hookahs. Predictors of smoking tobac...

OBJECTIVES To determine the association of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) with traffic fatality rates. METHODS Using data from the 1985-2014 Fatality Analysis Reporting System, we examined the association between MMLs and traffic fatalities in multilevel regression models while controlling for contemporaneous secular trends. We examined this association separately for each state enacting MMLs....