The Annals of Statistics publishes research papers of the highest quality reflecting the many facets of contemporary statistics. Primary emphasis is placed on importance and originality, not on ...

When looking at prospects in the minors, it seems that the hardest thing to project is whether a hitter will hit in the big leagues or not. There are more extreme cases like when scouts are looking at ...

In [14], Sanov proved that if FN is the empirical cumulative distribution function (cdf) of a sample drawn from a population whose true cdf is F0 and Ω is a set of cdf's which satisfies certain ...