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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, ...

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Statistical inference for high-dimensional random processes addresses the problem of making reliable conclusions when the number of variables or dimensions grows as fast as, or faster than, the sample ...