Title: Improving the quality of statistical surveys; papers contributed as a memorial to Samuel Weiss.
Authors: Washington Statistical Society; American Statistical Association.
Publisher: American Statistical Assn.,
Year: 1956
Subjects: Weiss, Samuel.; Weiss, Samuel.; Statistics; Statistics.; Statistics as Topic
Contents: Foreword, by W. G. Cochran.--Tax returns as a source of benchmark statistics, by H. F. Demond.--Use of a sample survey for estimating an aggregate quarterly financial statement for a population of corporations, by D. M. Gilford and C. L. Marks.--Non-sampling errors in agricultural surveys, by W. A. Hendricks.--New measures of economic fluctuations, preliminary comments and illustrations, by J. Shiskin.--A proposed study for extending the scope and improving the quality of mortality data, by W. Haenszel, I. M. Moriyama and M. G. Sirken.-- Controlling quality in railroad traffic statistics, by R. T. Smith, III.--Some problems in the statistical measurement of chronic disease, by T. D. Woolsey and H. Nisselson.--Some notes on a study of response, by D. E. Young.