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Some Sampling Problems in Connection with Accounting Records
Author(s) -
James Stanley F.
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985492
Subject(s) - connection (principal bundle) , accounting , sampling (signal processing) , computer science , mathematics , business , telecommunications , geometry , detector
In this article Mr James describes in considerable detail an investigation into the application of statistical methods to the examination of accounting records. He draws attention to the special problems encountered when sampling highly skew population distributions such as are frequently found in this type of work.