This is probably the last of three articles on how piecewise-linear functions could be used as a helpful on-ramp to the big ideas in calculus. In the first article, we saw how it’s possible to develop ...
This is the second post (here’s the first one) about an approach to introducing the derivative to calculus students that is counter to what I’ve seen in textbooks and other traditional treatments of ...
Two effective variance-reduction techniques for estimating probabilities and quantiles in the tails of bootstrap distributions--importance sampling and concomitants of order statistics--are based on ...
Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, Vol. 49, Optimality: The Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium (2006), pp. 291-311 (21 pages) We analyze the (unconditional) distribution of a linear predictor that is ...