This article reviews and interprets recent mathematics of special functions, with emphasis on integral representations of multiple hypergeometric functions. B.C. Carlson's centrally important ...

N is the population size for a hypergeometric distribution. In terms of acceptance sampling, N is the lot size. K is the number of items in the category of interest in the population. In terms of ...

Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Covariance: a measure of the direction of the linear relationship between two variables. Discrete ...

For several pairs (P, Q) of classical distributions on ${\Bbb N}^{0}$ , we show that their stochastic ordering P ≤ st Q can be characterized by their extreme tail ordering equivalent to P({k * })/Q({k ...