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November 29, 2010
Readings about the census
Here are a series of recent articles about the US census. There are a lot of statistical issues in the census, and also a lot of non-statistical issues. But it's all interesting.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/304/5676/1452.full?sid=4ad2c618-f032-4669-ace7-9eb882393ec4
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6002/310.full?sid=4ad2c618-f032-4669-ace7-9eb882393ec4
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7306/full/466532a.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/full/4661043a.html
And for an even greater challenge, consider the census in China:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6003/436.full?sid=0d0a2deb-292b-4fe3-b7c5-6132c483f353
or a census of the oceans!
http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/magazine/879803/The-sea-the-Census-and-statistics-.html
Posted by kshedden at November 29, 2010 03:42 PM