Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Covariance: a measure of the direction of the linear relationship between two variables. Discrete ...

Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Discrete Variable: not continuous variable (cannot take on any value between two specified values).

Suppose that in a ballot candidate A scores a votes and candidate B scores b votes, and that all the possible voting records are equally probable. Corresponding to the first r votes, let α r and β r ...

For several pairs (P, Q) of classical distributions on ${\Bbb N}^{0}$ , we show that their stochastic ordering P ≤ st Q can be characterized by their extreme tail ordering equivalent to P({k * })/Q({k ...