Expect the unexpected from conditional expectation

American Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 248-252

  Proschan, Michael A ^a   Presnell, Brett ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conditional distributions; Paradoxes; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032378616     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1998.10480576     Document Type: Article

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