A series of conditional survey branches were used to obtain this information: e.g., (1) "Which of your blood relatives have ever had [cancer]?" (choose all that apply from list of relation types); (2) if "brother or sister" is selected, participant would be prompted with "Please select the type(s) of [cancer] that [a brother or sister] has had" (choose all that apply from a list of cancer types).
Ed Welniak, chief of the income surveys branch, said a test by the bureau found differences in the way people answered different sets of income questions.
"Scientifically speaking, if you tested for statistical significance, the difference between New Jersey and Connecticut most likely would not be statistically significant," said Kirby Posey, a survey statistician in the income surveys branch of the Census Bureau.
The report, by the United States Geological Survey, a branch of the Interior Department, comes just a week and a half before the Senate is scheduled to begin debating the White House's plan to allow drilling in the 19-million-acre refuge.
A11 U.S. Study Warns About Drilling The United States Geological Survey, a branch of the Interior Department, said drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska could harm caribou, snow geese, musk oxen and other wildlife.
Survey of branch support was conducted with a Bayesian-like transformation of approximate likelihood ratio test (aBayes; [ 34]).
While local branches have always had small foreign collections, an ever more multilingual city has led public libraries to dedicate more attention and staff to their effort, grounding decisions in census statistics, reports from foreign title distributors and surveys of branch managers about their patrons.
This chapter surveys the branch of implementation theory initiated by Maskin (1999).
The Chester and Holyhead railway surveyed a branch to Llangefni in 1852, but chose not to proceed.
The format of the final survey included branching logic such that participants were directed through different paths based on their response.
