"The possibility of speaking out freely has an enormously therapeutic effect on society," said Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik, speaking Monday night about the Human Rights movement in the Soviet Union. " T o s o m e e x t e n t t h e Revolution was successful. A new man and a new state were created, but it was a dreadful product, a police state," he commented. According to Amalrik, the human r...

As an application of the improved Cauchy-Schwartz inequality due to Walker (Statist. Probab. Lett. (2017) 122:86-90), we obtain an improved version of the Cramer-Rao inequality for randomly censored data derived by Abdushukurov and Kim (J. Soviet. Math. (1987) pp. 2171-2185). We derive a lower bound of Bhattacharya type for the mean square error of a parametric function based on randomly censor...