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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 47, No. 2 (1998), pp. 203-216 (14 pages) In the manufacture of metal fasteners in a progressive die operation, and other ...

This article deals with a problem in which n independent choices are made of r out of m factors, resulting in a multinomial distribution with $\binom{m}{r}$ cells. The interest centers on the number ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

In 2021, the waves of the pandemic started to quickly unravel supply chains across the world. Manufacturing plants slowed or even closed, ports experienced unprecedented back-ups, and transportation ...