Standard Error (SE) Explained: Understanding Standard Deviation in Statistics

Learn about standard error, its role as the standard deviation of a sample, and how it measures the accuracy of a sample ...
JD Supra

Upcoming Changes Regarding the Use of Statistical Sampling for Overpayment Estimation

In a September 28, 2018 Change Request to Medicare’s Program Integrity Manual (“PIM”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) updated its instructions to Medicare contractors regarding ...
JD Supra

Another Court Rejects Statistical Sampling and Rules That Difference of Opinion About Hospice Eligibility Is Insufficient for False Claims Act Liability

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 ...
University of Bristol

4 Ideas of statistical inference

Confidence intervals are computed from a random sample and therefore they are also random. The long run behavior of a 95% confidence interval is such that we’d expect 95% of the confidence intervals ...
University of Bristol

Sampling variation and sampling distributions

Describe the abstract idea of a sampling distribution and how it reflects the sample to sample variability of a sample statistic or point estimate. Identify the ...