Recent years have seen an increasing interest in probability sampling, and some proponents of the method have urged its use in public opinion surveys. This article reports on a comparative study of ...

The Federal Government of the United States has collected and published an increasing volume of statistics from the founding of the republic, but its contributions to statistical theory and method did ...

Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...

This comprehensive course bridges the gap between foundational statistical reasoning and practical applications related to business and engineering decision-making. Throughout the course, we’ll ...

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Actuarial Science and BSc in Financial Mathematics and Statistics. This course is available on the BSc in Data Science, BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical ...

As polling takes center stage again this election year, understanding its strengths and weaknesses is critical. At Pew Research Center, we’ve looked hard at the advantages and limitations of our ...

THE first volume of this work, reviewed by Prof. R. A. Fisher in Nature of October 16, 1943, covered the subjects of frequency distributions and their properties ; theories of probability and sampling ...

PROBABILITY theory is a quaint little piece of mathematics. It is about sets of non-negative numbers that are attached to actual and possible physical events, that sum to 1 and that obey certain rules ...

A formidable many-body problem in ecology is to understand the complex of factors controlling patterns of relative species abundance (RSA) in communities of interacting species. Unlike many problems ...