Try dropping the words "statistical sampling" while in conversation with a Republican politician and watch the sizzle. Why does such a nerdy blending of adjective and noun inflame GOP lawmakers like ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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, ...

The American Health Care Association is lending its clout to a controversial court case debating the use of statistical sampling in False Claims Act cases. In an amicus brief filed Thursday, the AHCA ...

Publicly held companies, or private companies that apply for credit, must have routine audits of financial transactions conducted. Outside agencies, not affiliated with the company, perform these ...

House Speaker Newt Gingrich has filed his much anticipated lawsuit seeking to prevent the Clinton administration from using a new and contentious method for estimating the country’s population in the ...

Back in March of this year, in U.S. ex rel. Paradies v. AseraCare, Inc., a district court in Alabama granted summary judgment to a defendant hospice finding that an expert physician’s disagreement ...