Improving the quality of statistical surveys, papers contributed as a memorial to Samuel Weiss / Sponsored by the Washington Statistical Society in collaboration with the American Statistical Association.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Washington Statistical Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weiss, Samuel.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

ii, 95 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Distributed by the American Statistical Association, 1956.

Contents:

Foreword, by W. G. Cochran.

Tax returns as a source of benchmark statistics, by H. F. Demond.

Use of a sample survey for estimating an aggregate quarterly financial statement for a population of corporations, by D. M. Milford and C. L. Marks.

Non-sampling errors in agricultural surveys, by W. A. Hendricks.

New measures of economic fluctuations, preliminary comments and illustrations, by J. Shiskin.

A proposed study for extending the scope and improving the quality of mortality data, by W. Haenszel, I. M. Moriyama and M. G. Sirken.

Controlling quality in railroad traffic statistics, by R. T. Smith, III.

Some problems in the statistical measurement of chronic disease, by T. D. Woolsey and H. Nisselson.

Some notes on a study of response, by D. E. Young.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

1298555