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Business Definition for: Area Sampling

  • a form of sampling in which a region is subdivided and some of the divisions are then selected at random for a complete survey

Additional Resources

Monetary-Unit Sampling Using Microsoft Excel
Monetary-unit sampling MUS is a method of statistical sampling used to assess the amount of monetary misstatement that may exist in an account balance. The method, also known as dollar-unit sampling or probability-proportional-to-size sampling, has been used for many years and is widely accepted among auditors.
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel
Research articles 2005-05-01
Statistical sampling in tax filings: new confirmation from the IRS
Statistical sampling is playing an increasingly important role in identifying deductions and credits for federal income tax purposes. The Internal Revenue Service has been responsive to questions about the appropriateness of and requirements for the use of statistical sampling in tax determinations. The creation of territory sampling coordinator positions and...
Tags: deduction, Internal Revenue Service, tax
Research articles 2004-05-01
Statistical Sampling as a Management Tool in Banking
The author describes the use of sampling in a financial setting and focuses, as an illustration, on some of the methods used by the FDIC to value assets in liquidation. By using sampling, as opposed to valuing each asset, significant cost savings are achieved while ensuring the accuracy and...
Tags: FDIC, Banking, Author, Tool, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 1997-06-01
Specifying A/D converters: considerations for IF-sampling applications.(LEADING inside: A series of engineering insights by Analog Devices.)(Advertisement)
Choosing the ADC with the highest resolution or sampling speed is often not enough to satisfy the performance demands presented by IF-sampling architectures. ADCs for IF-sampling applications must support high input frequencies while also maintaini Choosing the ADC with the highest resolution or sampling...
Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., advertisement, Analog Devices Inc.
Research articles 2005-09-15
Cabo targets Cobalt.(In Brief)(Cabo Mining Enterprises Corp)(Brief Article)
A Vancouver-based junior has begun a sampling program looking for silver in the Cobalt area. The company wants to confirm some silver mineralization in an area considered one of the world's historically productive silver camps. A Vancouver-based junior has begun a sampling program looking...
Tags: Cobalt Networks
Research articles 2004-08-01
Specifying A/D Converters: Considerations for IF-Sampling Applications
Choosing the ADC with the highest resolution or sampling speed is often not enough to satisfy the performance demands presented by IF-sampling architectures. ADCs for IF-sampling applications must support high input frequencies while also maintaining adeqChoosing the ADC with the highest resolution or sampling speed is often not enough to...
Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., performance
Research articles 2005-10-01
Specifying A/D converters: considerations for IF-sampling applications.(Advertorial)(Advertisement)
Choosing the ADC with the highest resolution or sampling speed is often not enough to satisfy the performance demands presented by IF-sampling architectures. ADCs for IF-sampling applications must support high input frequencies while also maintaini Choosing the ADC with the highest resolution or sampling...
Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., advertisement, advertorial
Research articles 2005-10-13
Product Sampling Evaluation
In recent years, the number of sampling methods and programs available to brand managers have increased dramatically, and at the same time have become more sophisticated in their approach to sample delivery. Many of the new programs being introduced use modern marketing information systems to identify prime consumer groups and...
Tags: Program, Brand, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
World Trade Center Indoor Air Quality Sampling Proposal Circulated, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Seeks Public Comment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA has released for public comment a draft sampling plan for lower Manhattan to determine if the area has contaminants from the collapsed towers at levels of concern. The pWASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ - The U.S. Environmental...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, World Trade Center
Research articles 2004-10-21
Monte Carlo Markov Chain Methods For Derivative Pricing
Derivative security pricing relies increasingly on lattice representations of stochastic processes. When the lattice is of high dimension, exhaustive enumeration becomes conceptually costly. Instead, Monte Carlo simulation is used to estimate lattice value by sampling appropriately from the nodes. Naïve sampling can lead to substantial error in estimation because the...
Tags: Marketing, Derivative Security Pricing, Lattice, Pricing, Engineering, Pricing Strategy, Santa Clara University, Algorithm
White papers 2001-10-01
Best Practices
The article says that one can design an acceptance-sampling plan to signal when to undertake a total physical inventory count. Compared to taking a total inventory count at a fixed period annually, sampling can provide you with more accurate record counts, cause less disruption of operations, and lower costs. The sampling...
Tags: Article, Inventory, Best Practice
White papers 2003-01-01
Yale Completes Sampling at La Verde Grande Cu-Zn-Ag-Au Mine
Yale Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: YLL) (FRANKFURT: YAB) is pleased to provide an update on the sampling program underway at the wholly owned La Verde Project, located 45 km northwest of Hermosillo, Sonora State, Mexico. The first area to be sampled was the La Verde Grade copper-zinc-silver-gold mine. The exploration...
Tags: Yale University
Research articles 2007-09-24
Palm Beach culture: A wealth of fairs and festivals celebrate the arts, heritage and sports of the area.(Brief Article)
Palm Beach prides itself on its cultural offerings, and rightfully so, as many museums and performing arts venues call the area home. Palm Beach is also rich in festivals celebrating arts, ethnicity, athletics and food. A sampling of events follows. Palm Beach prides itself on...
Tags: festival, Palm Beach, Palm Inc.
Research articles 2002-01-14
Wellhead protection programs.
A hypothetical situation is posed. A public utility serves a population of about 7,000 solely from groundwater with chlorination as the only treatment. The service area has experienced rapid industrial growth, and routine sampling reveals water qualt A hypothetical situation is posed. A public utility serves...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 1992-03-01
EPA and CDC Report High Levels of Bacterial Contamination in Preliminary Floodwater Samples from New Orleans
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Floodwaters from multiple locations across the New Orleans area were sampled by EPA and analyzed for chemicals and bacteria. These initial results represent the beginning of extensive sampling efforts and do not repWASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Floodwaters from multiple locations across...
Tags: bacteria, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2005-09-07
Altavista Mines: Excellent Channel Sampling Results: Drilling to go Ahead on Montbray
BOUCHERVILLE, Quebec--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 12, 1996-- Altavista Inc.(ME AIA.) Altavista Mines Inc. is pleased to announce channel sampling results for the Montbray showing, where a prior rock sampling returned high grade gold values of up to 120 g/t Au (3.5 oz/Au).
Research articles 1996-11-12
How To choose An Industrial Sample
If business-to-business marketers experience twinges of inadequacy when compared to their counterparts in consumer fields, sampling is often the reason. Consumer marketing men trot out jargon about quotas, stratification, probabilities and the like which is mumbo jumbo to 99 per cent of industrial marketers. The business-to-business researcher feels intuitively that...
Tags: B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
White papers 2003-01-01
LKA Announces Results of Barrick's Sampling of Golden Wonder Ore
GIG HARBOR, Wash. -- LKA International, Inc. (OTCBB:LKAI). Earlier this week LKA received assay results from a detailed sampling program initiated by Barrick and conducted by Pincock, Allen & Holt. The object of the sampling program was Golden Wonder ore both within the mine as well as ore stored at...
Research articles 2007-10-04
Take our advice.(Boeing Co. relocation to Chicago)(Brief Article)
Everyone likes to give newcomers advice. So, Crain's Chicago Business asked a sampling of the area's political leaders, business executives and celebrities to offer relocating Boeing Co. executives some helpful hints. Here's what they said: Mayor Everyone likes to give newcomers advice....
Tags: Boeing Co.
Research articles 2001-08-20
Surround-sound audio codec. (Integrated Circuits).(Wolfson Microelectronics' WM8772)(Brief Article)
* Integrates a stereo ADC with a sampling rate reaching 96 kHz and a six-channel DAC with a sampling rate reaching 192 kHz * ADC and DAC can ... * Integrates a stereo ADC with a sampling rate reaching 96...
Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., integrated circuit
Research articles 2003-03-06
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