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In this paper, we provide extensions to Miss F. N. David's (1938) tables of the correlation coefficient. These extensions are made in two different directions. The first part is concerned with the ...

The Central Limit Theorem is a statistical concept applied to large data distributions. It says that as you randomly sample data from a distribution, the means and standard deviations of the samples ...

When particles in a sample are the same size, one particle can be measured to report the result. If the sample has a narrow distribution, such as 10-25 µm, then measurement of just a few particles can ...