Dealing a serious blow to congressional supporters of statistical sampling, a panel of Census Bureau experts Thursday recommended against using the controversial method for producing redistricting ...

Systematic sampling is straightforward and low risk, offering better control. However, it may introduce sampling errors and ...

Margaret Warner explores the continuing controversy of sampling when determining the 2000 U.S. census numbers. The U.S. Census Bureau worked particularly hard last year to count every American. With a ...

Left-leaning groups want to include millions of pretend people in the real-life 2010 Census. It almost happened in 2000. This time, they might get their way The administration claims it has "no plans" ...

President Obama will today announce that he has chosen potentially-polarizing University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves to become census director, according to the Associated Press. Groves, a ...

The 2020 census is headed for a debacle, and California is among the states most likely to be victimized by it. Every 10 years, the Constitution requires the federal government to “enumerate” the ...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to expand its study of whether the Clinton administration can use statistical sampling for the 2000 census. The court had agreed Sept. 10 to decide a dispute spurred ...

IN AMERICA, the census is like a tetanus shot: one of life's necessities you must endure every ten years. Since 1790, the government has conducted a constitutionally mandated count of Americans, which ...

Only a few feet of space–typically enough for a gangway–lies between the humble bungalows and small apartment buildings that line the streets of the tightly packed Little Village neighborhood. But ...

A general and basic model for inference about characteristics of a finite population of distinguishable elements is presented from a subjectivistic-Bayesian point of view. A subjectivist analogue to ...