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When auditing a company, auditors use a combination of professional judgment and statistical sampling methods to estimate account balances. Statistical sampling is an efficient way to design samples, ...

Today a committee of senior U.S. Census officials will make a recommendation with $185 billion at stake. Their recommendation to Bush-appointed Census director William Barron concerns the use of ...

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