Current data suggest that the rate of breastfeeding in the United States is far below the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics that all infants be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 ...

The distance between two clusters can be defined either directly or combinatorially (Lance and Williams 1967), that is, by an equation for updating a distance matrix when two clusters are joined. In ...

The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The Institute was formed at a ...