In its daily assessment of conditions around the country, the fire center said today that 11 states in the West were reporting "very high to extreme fire danger indices," with hot and dry weather expected to continue.
Equally, coverage probabilities above the 95% threshold produce inaccuracy on the confidence interval; which potentially biases any subsequent assessment of uncertainty around the estimate of interest.
Both means and medians are reported along with standard deviations and 25th and 75th percentiles to allow comparison of point estimates and assessment of variability around these estimates.
The trustees skipped an expensive search and instead relied on Mr. Sher's assessment of directing talent around the country.
The report was a rebuttal to the State Department's annual assessment of human rights around the world, which was critical of China.
A Red Cross spokeswoman, Catherine Ntabadde, said, "From the latest reports we have, we can only confirm 18 dead, but assessment of the devastation around the area is continuing".
"The overall pace of activity still looks soft," the New York bank reported in the "beige book," which is the Federal Reserve's periodic assessment of economic conditions around the country.
NATO countries also wanted to hear Libyans' assessment of the situation around major the remaining Qaddafi strongholds, like Surt and Sabha, and of their plans for Colonel Qaddafi if captured.
The same day, in "Stop Bush's War" (column, March 16), Bob Herbert cites David Halberstam's assessment of the men around President Lyndon B. Johnson during the Vietnam War, and their lack of "the lonely kind of strength and courage of telling the truth to America and perhaps of incurring a good deal of domestic political risk".
