In presidential elections, even the smallest changes in horse-race poll results seem to become imbued with deep meaning. But they are often overstated. Pollsters ...
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 ...
It’s in vogue these days to declare the building blocks of statistical inference irrelevant to assessing the performance of schools. For example, Joel Klein recently argued that statistical ...
We provide a general theorem bounding the error in the approximation of a random measure of interest—for example, the empirical population measure of types in a ...
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) ...