The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The Institute was formed at a ...

A new ordering for nonmonotone dependence is proposed, and a method is presented for describing parametric families of bivariate distributions with fixed marginals and specified dependence structures.

Functions of Random Variables. Monte Carlo Simulation in R. Joint distributions and joint moments. Marginal and conditional densities. Independence, covariance and correlation. Sums of random ...