Communicating variance and sampling errors to users - ARCHIVED

Articles and reports: 11-522-X20050019463

Description:

Statisticians are developing additional concepts for communicating errors associated with estimates. Many of these concepts are readily understood by statisticians but are even more difficult to explain to users than the traditional confidence interval. The proposed solution, when communicating with non-statisticians, is to improve the estimates so that the requirement for explaining the error is minimised. The user is then not confused by having too many numbers to understand.

Issue Number: 2005001
Author(s): Swires-Hennessy, Ed
FormatRelease dateMore information
CD-ROMMarch 2, 2007
PDFMarch 2, 2007