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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-statistics-and-management-systems</journal-id>
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        <journal-title> Journal of Statistics and Management Systems</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0014</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0510</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JSMS-1523</article-id>
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        <article-title>Predicting a random determinant with i.i.d. Beta variates of first kind</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Agrawal</surname>
            <given-names>Shashi Kant</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>University Department of Mathematics, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 834008, India</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pandey</surname>
            <given-names>Pinky</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Nirmala College, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 834002, India</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Chakraborty</surname>
            <given-names>Soubhik</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 835215, India</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>365</fpage>
      <lpage>370</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>08</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>Chebyshev’s inequality is a powerful probabilistic inequality based on which we can set up confidence interval of any random variable irrespective of its distribution. In the present paper, we make use of this inequality to set up confidence (fiducial) limits of a second and third order random determinant whose entries are independently and identically distributed Beta variates of first kind. The results would be useful in computations involving determinants where the entries are random variables and in areas where we are dealing with random square matrices. </p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Random determinant</kwd>
        <kwd>Beta distribution of first kind</kwd>
        <kwd>Chebyshev’s inequality</kwd>
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