Last month in Points of Significance, we showed how samples are used to estimate population statistics. We emphasized that, because of chance, our estimates had an uncertainty. This month we focus on ...

Temperature is by far the most commonly measured physical parameter. With so many new ideas for connected devices in the works for consumer and industrial applications, you often need high-accuracy ...

Analytics, at its core, is leveraging data for measuring and improving business outcomes. Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed.” Basically, effectively measuring ...

Pew Research Center designed this study to assess the current state of online survey sampling methods – both probability-based and opt-in – and determine their accuracy on general population estimates ...