He supervised the modernization of the best-seller list in The New York Times Book Review in 1977, its first update in more than 30 years, by bringing the techniques of market surveying, sample design and computer processing to the world of publishing.
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MEPS employs a complex survey sample design in order to oversample certain population groups of interest; this survey design must be accounted for ( using either the Taylor Series Linearization method or the Balanced repeated replication method ) to appropriately calculate the standard errors.
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And while it is easy enough to fiddle around with the sample designs that come with the program ( by clicking File, Open and then Demo ) it is much more enlightening and far more entertaining to run one of the dozen or so highly detailed audio-visual tutorials that are included on the CD-ROM.
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While there is utility in weighting hypotheses and branching potential outcomes from them, reliance on scenario analysis without reporting some parameters of measurement accuracy ( standard errors, confidence intervals of estimates, metadata, standardization and coding, weighting for non-response, error in reportage, sample design, case counts, etc . ) is a poor second to traditional prediction.
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A "'gradsect "'or "'gradient-directed transect "'is a low-input, high-return sampling method where the aim is to maximise information about the distribution of statistical designs based on purely random sampling or systematic ( e . g . grid-based ) systems tend to be less efficient in recovering information about the distribution of taxa than sample designs that are purposively directed instead along deterministic environmental gradients.
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The AAUW study, however, posed questions about fourteen types of sexual harassment and various degrees of frequency and included only abuses by teachers . " The sample was drawn from a list of 80, 000 schools to create a stratified two-stage sample design of 2, 065 8th to 11th grade students " Its reliability was gauged at 95 % with a 4 % margin of error.
