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Re: AW: st: xttrans accuracy
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: AW: st: xttrans accuracy
Date
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:02:35 -0500
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2. Whether rounded fractions sum to 1 exactly not only involves machine precision issues but also provides some mathematical challenges. See for example
>
> Persi Diaconis and David Freedman
> 1979
> On Rounding Percentages
> Journal of the American Statistical Association 74: 359-364.
>
> -- and its references.
This is online at:
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/freedman79.pdf
Scott
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