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"Statistical Victory," in ScienceScope. Science, 28 June 2002, page 2313.
This short article tells of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that a statistical technique used in the U.S. census, "hot deck imputation," is constitutionally acceptable. The technique allows the Census Bureau to fill in missing or obviously inaccurate information. The Court ruled that the technique is distinct from sampling, which was outlawed in 1999. An article about the case, "Census Case Tests Statistical Method," appeared in the February 1 issue of Science and in Math Digest (click here for the Math Digest item).
--- Mike Breen |
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