In a September 28, 2018 Change Request to Medicare’s Program Integrity Manual (“PIM”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) updated its instructions to Medicare contractors regarding ...

The issue of using statistical sampling in federal False Claims Act (FCA) cases has come to the fore in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, following a U.S. District Court decision denying its use in a ...

When auditing a company, auditors use a combination of professional judgment and statistical sampling methods to estimate account balances. Statistical sampling is an efficient way to design samples, ...

here is very good news for CPAs whose clients face the often burdensome administrative costs of claiming allowable expense deductions for meals and entertainment (M&E)—the IRS now will permit the use ...

Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

Its technical name is the Employment Situation Summary. Business journalists call it the monthly jobs report. But it’s actually two reports, based on two different surveys. The Current Employment ...

When an estimating problem is routine, it is often possible to consider the parameter being estimated as a random variable. The data obtained to estimate previous values of the parameter then contain ...

The following sample plan of study fulfills the M.S. degree in Computational Operations Research, pending final approval from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, with an emphasis on ...