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 ...

1. Sampling error in annual estimates of population size creates two widely recognized problems for the analysis of population growth. First, if sampling error is ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Academic survey researchers tend to differ ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A comprehensive treatment of the theory of non-sampling errors is given in this paper by bringing together the work of a number of authors on ...

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