Summary One problem in statistics is to determine the distributions of estimators and statistics. For distributions of the continuous type the density function of an estimator can at each point be expressed as a multiple integral, but the standard methods for computing integrals are not...

Data created in a controlled laboratory setting are a relatively new phenomenon to economists. Traditional data analysis methods using either parametric or nonparametric tests are not necessarily the best option available to economists analyzing laboratory data. In 1935, Fisher proposed the...