Consider a population of 70 individuals, for which you wish to estimate the mean annual income, μ. Assume that you have decided to use the following estimation procedure to make your estimate: simple ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 46, No. 6 (June 2007), pp. 791-813 (23 pages) ABSTRACT Monthly rainfall estimates inferred from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) ...

Distance sampling methods assume that distances are known but in practice there are often errors in measuring them. These can have substantial impact on the bias and precision of distance sampling ...

These days it seems like everyone and their brother is trying to put a financial squeeze on health care providers. Even putting aside the growth in malpractice judgments, providers are facing ...

Oct. 8, 2008— -- Surveys based on a random sample of respondents are subject to sampling error – a calculation of how closely the results reflect the attitudes ...