W. Edwards Deming Quote

Precision is expressed by an international standard, viz., the standard error. It measures the average of the difference between a complete coverage and a long series of estimates formed from samples drawn from this complete coverage by a particular procedure or drawing, and processed by a particular estimating formula.


On the Presentation of the Results of Sample Surveys as Legal Evidence, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 49, Number, 268, December 1954 (p. 820)


Precision is expressed by an international standard, viz., the standard error. It measures the average of the difference between a complete coverage...

Precision is expressed by an international standard, viz., the standard error. It measures the average of the difference between a complete coverage...

Precision is expressed by an international standard, viz., the standard error. It measures the average of the difference between a complete coverage...

Precision is expressed by an international standard, viz., the standard error. It measures the average of the difference between a complete coverage...