To sample or not to sample...
- by mark.hornick@oracle.com
Ideally, we would know the exact answer to every question. How
many people support presidential candidate A vs. B? How many people
suffer from H1N1 in a given state? Does this batch of manufactured
widgets have any defective parts? Knowing exact answers is expensive in
terms of time
and money and, in most
cases, is impractical if not impossible.…