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, ...

These days it seems like everyone and their brother is trying to put a financial squeeze on health care providers. Even putting aside the growth in malpractice judgments, providers are facing ...

The government and qui tam plaintiffs are increasingly employing statistical sampling in False Claims Act cases, particularly in cases where addressing and analyzing large numbers of allegedly false ...

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 38, No. 2, Papers from 23rd Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics (June 2011), pp. 377-392 (16 pages) Sampford's unequal probability sampling method is ...

A composite is formed by collecting multiple sample units and combining them in their entirety or in part, to form a new sample. The sample units that make up the composite may retain their integrity ...

Court has the opportunity to assess the use of statistical sampling/extrapolation as a method to prove FCA liability or damages. Courts require that plaintiffs prove each element of a legal claim with ...

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