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 ...

Pew Research Center designed this study to assess the current state of online survey sampling methods – both probability-based and opt-in – and determine their accuracy on general population estimates ...

Key challenges of biopsy-based determination of prostate cancer aggressiveness include tumour heterogeneity, biopsy-sampling error, and variations in biopsy interpretation. The resulting uncertainty ...

Suggested Citation: "3 Sample Surveys: Overview, Examples, and Usefulness in Studying Aviation Safety." National Research Council. 2009. An Assessment of NASA's National Aviation Operations Monitoring ...