John G. Martin writes: Although the FCA and most provider contracts with insurance companies do not discuss statistical sampling and extrapolation, it has become routine for the government ...

Bayesian statistics can be hard to teach at an elementary level due to the difficulty in deriving the posterior distribution for interesting nonconjugate problems. One attractive method of summarizing ...

Within a survey of mountain forest types in the Swiss Alps, we compared three statistical sampling methods, i.e. stratified random sampling of the investigation area, systematic sampling and ...

If a taxpayer calculates research tax credits using an appropriate statistical sampling method on its tax return, does the taxpayer then make a prima facie case in the Tax Court by introducing ...

Systematic sampling is low risk, controllable and easy, but this statistical sampling method could lead to sampling errors and data manipulation.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab have developed a new method for ...