Data that are collected for the production of official statistics or, more generally, for statistical analyses nearly always contain measurement errors. National statistical institutes, other ...

The choice of genotyping families vs unrelated individuals is a critical factor in any large-scale linkage disequilibrium (LD) study. The use of unrelated individuals for such studies is promising, ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 180, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2017), pp. 1191-1209 (19 pages) Area level models, such as the Fay–Herriot model, aim to improve ...

This paper establishes that instruments enable the identification of nonparametric regression models in the presence of measurement error by providing a closed form ...

Very often, in the test and measurement industry, a measurement is made by instrumentation, which is often subject to errors. It is difficult to estimate the true value of the measured quantity given ...

To understand the incidence and nature of diagnostic errors in healthcare, providers must refer to a number of data sources and research methods. The committee that authored the Institute of ...

A study published in May in the BMJ, a medical journal, estimates that medical errors in hospitals account for more than 250,000 deaths in the United States every year, making it the third-leading ...