It’s in vogue these days to declare the building blocks of statistical inference irrelevant to assessing the performance of schools. For example, Joel Klein recently argued that statistical ...

For each individual in a finite population a recorded value is available. A small proportion of the values is in error, all the errors being of the same sign and the ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Academic survey researchers tend to differ ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Data were collected when transmitters and receivers were at known locations. One method used to determine the direction of the transmitters, ...