After my post the other day on tracking public opinion with biased polls, someone pointed me to this 2011 article by David Yeager, Jon Krosnick, LinChiat Chang, Harold Javitz, Matthew Levendusky, ...

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Statistics are often estimated from a sample rather than from the entire population. If the inclusion probability of the sample is unknown to the researcher, that is, a nonprobability sample, naively ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Numerous investigations, both theoretical and numerical, have been made of the distribution of the range in normal samples. One of the first ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. There are two things that affect the margin of error (MOE). They are the poll ...