Does your iPod really play favorites?

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 263-268

  Froelich, Amy G ^a   Duckworth, William M ^b   Culhane, Jessica ^c  

^a E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MILLIMAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit test; Probability models; Randomness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950667126     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.07073     Document Type: Article

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