Sentence examples for errors in counting from inspiring English sources

BUT the census workers who go back will make their own errors in counting and in matching up their people with those found before, Dr. Freedman said.

It might also be noted that uncertainties in results may arise from an uneven distribution of uranium, statistical errors in counting, and inaccurate estimates of neutron flux (dose of neutrons).

Strogatz cites Seife's assertion that the winner of the "astonishingly close 2008 Minnesota Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken... should have been decided by a coin flip; anything else is disestimation, considering that the observed errors in counting the votes were always much larger than the number of votes... separating the two candidates".

The winner, he claims, should have been decided by a coin flip; anything else is disestimation, considering that the observed errors in counting the votes were always much larger than the number of votes (roughly 200 to 300) separating the two candidates.

In practice the quantity received may not match the quantity ordered due to worker's strike, rejection during inspection, damage during transportation, human errors in counting, etc. Accordingly, the managers often must make decisions under uncertain quantity received circumstances.

We are unsure of the origins of these errors in counting, but Jevons characterized it as "an instance of that inevitable bias in mental experiments against which it is impossible to take complete precautions".

If in the course of the lawsuit demanding a recount, the party could prove malfeasance, and not just an error in counting ballots, the result could be a new election.

The change of the fractal index Dbgr for Poisson statistics – dominated sets with different coefficients of error in counting (up to 10) was studied and 〈Dbgr〉 = 1.5.

Fourth there are potential sources of error in counting B lines.

Because there was scope for error in counting these, we chose to use approximations and applied a banding system (low, moderate and high amounts of research), and therefore a precise number of studies are not offered (see Table 1 for a summary of criteria used).

In another model, he found a 1percentt error rate in counting ballots, which is clearly unacceptable.