746 Index
Type II error, 268, 469
Unbiased, 152
Unbiased test, 473
best test, 474
mlr tests, 483
two-sided alternative, 488
Unbiasedness, 226
Uniform distribution, 50
Uniformly most powerful critical region,
479
Uniformly most powerful test, 479
regular exponential family, 484
relationship to monotone likelihood
ratio, 483
relationship to sufficiency, 482
Union, 5
countable union, 6
Upper control limit, 505
Upper fence, 259
Variance, 68
n-variate, 141
conditional, 111
linear identity, 128
conditional inequality, 114
linear combination, 152
sum iid, 152
Variance-covariance matrix, 141
Venn diagram, 4
Verzani, J., 282
Vidmar, T. J., 528, 600
Wald test, 380
beta(θ,1) distribution, 381
Laplace distribution, 381
relation to likelihood ratio test, 380
relationship to scores test, 380
Walsh averages, 590
Waring distribution, 224
Weak Law of Large Numbers, 322
n-variate, 350
Weibull distribution, 185
Wilcoxon
signed-rank, 586
Willerman, L., 237
Wolfe, D. A., 569, 635
Wolfe, D.A., 636
Zipf’s law, 223