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Polling, Margin of Error
Message posted by Jeff Mrenak on September 21, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Does anyone know of an online source that gives a good technical treatment of polling, margin of error, confidence intervals, etc.? I'm looking for the underlying theory and math.

Thanks so much.


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Re: Polling, Margin of Error
Message posted by JG on September 21, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Try some of the links at the Statistics for Business Decisions web site Also, if you do a search for interactive statistics site you should have more choices to look at.



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