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Oct. 8, 2008— -- Surveys based on a random sample of respondents are subject to sampling error – a calculation of how closely the results reflect the attitudes ...

Every election year, questions arise about how polling techniques and practices might skew poll results one way or the other. In the final weeks before this year’s election, the practice of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Daily milk records from 367 lactations of 179 Dairy Shorthorns and 147 lactations of 89 Friesians were used to study the errors which arise ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 50, No. 5 (May 2011), pp. 994-1023 (30 pages) ABSTRACT Passive and active microwave rain sensors on board Earth-orbiting satellites estimate ...