Technical Terms Measurement error: The discrepancy between the recorded value and the true value, arising from imperfections in measurement instruments or procedures.

Nielsen’s error, which had gone on since the rollout of out-of-home in late 2020, was just the latest in a long string of measurement screw-ups that has placed the company under siege.

The paper deals with one particular strategy for measurement error modelling, namely that of seeking an instrumental variable, i.e. a covariate S which is associated with exposure and conditionally ...

Here we develop techniques for analyzing phylogenetically correlated data to include within-species variation, or "measurement error" as it is often termed in the statistical literature.

When publishing socioeconomic survey data, survey programs implement a variety of statistical methods designed to preserve privacy but which come at the cost of distorting the data. World Bank survey ...

Nielsen has informed its clients of an “error” in its measurement of out-of-home viewing of sports and other live TV programming, with the issues dating back to September 2020. The out-of-home ...

HealthDay News — For patients 50 years or older at high cardiovascular risk without diabetes or prior stroke, an intensive systolic blood pressure (SBP) target (<120 mm Hg) seems cost-effective at ...