Principles of Sampling
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1954
- Publisher
- Journal of the American Statistical Society
- Volume / pages
- 1954, 49, 31
- Retrieved
- Jan 31, 2012
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The Importance of Accuracy
In 1905, a physicist measuring the thermal conductivity of copper would have faced, unknowingly, a very small systematic error due to the heating of his equipment and sample by the absorption of cosmic rays, then unknown to physics. In early 1946, an opinion poller, studying Japanese opinion as to who won the war…