Giles (2007) presents a summary of the debate that began as soon as Burnham et al. (2006) published their Iraq Mortality Survey (IMS) results in the British journal The Lancet. His article starts: ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 61, No. 1, Sample Surveys (Apr., 1999), pp. 133-144 (12 pages) The polya posterior gives a noninformative Bayesian justification ...

Introduction Current Tools for Measuring Mortality Commissioning, Interpretation, and Use of Mortality Data Conclusion: A Dedicated Body to Monitor Mortality? References Humanitarian agencies often ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 38 million people around the world and is showing no signs of going away any time soon. Researchers worldwide are frantically working on developing an effective ...

Stratified two-stage cluster sampling provided a random sample of radiation oncology facilities. Eligible patients were randomly sampled from each participating facility for each disease site, and ...

Local blackbird populations cause most of the damage to sunflower crops in North Dakota. Precise estimates of blackbird breeding populations are necessary before management practices designed to ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...