Bortkiewicz's Data and the Law of Small Numbers

DOI10.2307/1403193zbMATH Open0622.62003OpenAlexW2326566859MaRDI QIDQ3759682FDOQ3759682

Eugene Seneta, M. P. Quine

Publication date: 1987

Published in: International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1403193

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zbMATH Keywords

censoringhomogeneitytest statisticdivergence coefficienthorse kick dataL. von BortkiewiczLaw of small numbersPoisson distributed data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Statistical distribution theory (62E99) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03)

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