When auditing a company, auditors use a combination of professional judgment and statistical sampling methods to estimate account balances. Statistical sampling is an efficient way to design samples, ...

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Simple random sampling is the foundation for almost every method taught in introductory statistics classes. Many students, however, have difficulty understanding the difference between simple random ...

Information on Earth's biodiversity is increasingly collected using DNA-, image- and audio-based sampling. At the same time, ...

The efficiency of Monte Carlo simulations is significantly improved when implemented with variance reduction methods. Among these methods, we focus on the popular importance sampling technique based ...

Information on Earth's biodiversity is increasingly collected using DNA-, image- and audio-based sampling. At the same time, new statistical analysis methods are being developed to make more out of ...