Periodicals>Journal Article: Cochran, Mosteller, Tukey (1954), Principles of Sampling, Journal of the American Statistical Society, 1954, 49, 31, Retrieved on 2012-01-31
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31 JAN 2012
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, would have faced a very small systematic error due to the neglect of the 17 Japanese holdouts, who were discovered later north of Saipan. These cases are entirely parallel. Social, ...Folksonomies: statistics measurment
Folksonomies: statistics measurment
Comparing an error in measuring the thermal conductivity of copper to surveying Japanese after WWII.