Investopedia

Understanding Distribution Channels in Business: How They Function

Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...
Investopedia

Understanding Normal Distribution: Key Definitions, Formula, and Real-Life Examples

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has ...
IEEE

A Novel Bayesian Outlier Score Based on the Negative Binomial Distribution for Detecting Aberrantly Expressed Genes in RNA-Seq Gene Expression Count Data

Abstract: The Negative Binomial distribution (NBD) is used for modeling many types of count data, including gene expression counts obtained by RNA sequencing technologies (RNA-Seq). Finding outliers ...
CNBC

Required minimum distribution: What is it and who has to take it?

Required minimum distributions (RMD) are mandatory withdrawals seniors must take from their retirement accounts starting at age 73. RMDs are not a set dollar amount. Rather, they're a sliver of your ...
The Motley Fool

3 Things to Know About 401(k) Distributions in 2025

401(k) withdrawals before age 59 1/2 may incur taxes plus a 10% penalty. Roth 401(k) distributions are generally tax-free. At 73, you must start taking RMDs from a traditional 401(k), calculated based ...
The Motley Fool

What You Should Know About IRA Distributions in 2025

Starting RMDs at age 73 is mandatory for traditional IRAs to ensure that you pay taxes on your savings. Missing your full RMD triggers a 25% penalty, which can be ...
Utah State University

Normal Approximations

If the probability that a randomly selected person will vote in the next election is 0.39, how would we find the probability that more than half of the people in a sample of 1000 will vote? Since the ...
IEEE

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

I welcome you to the fourth issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2021. This issue includes 23 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, these ...
MDM

With Merger Complete, Lawson Products Rebrands as Distribution Solutions Group

About a month after completing its merger with distributor TestEquity and supply chain solutions provider Gexpro Services, Chicago-based Lawson Products is changing its name. Now a distribution ...
jech.bmj

A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

Study objective: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression.
GitHub

Estimate and predict a zero-inflated count model.

Estimate a mixture model with a Poisson or negative binomial count model and a point mass at zero. The predictors can be different for the two models. The estimated model can be saved and used for ...