Businesses, including surveying businesses, data collector manufacturers, and software vendors, are generally quite a bit more fragile and subject to ...

I became suspicious when a new subdivision next to where I used to live was named after the chairman of the development review board.

OK, if we hypothesize that the Texas rules cannot be rigorously enforced on the majority of monuments, and we are asking how a professional who wants ...

A related question is how could the standard be enforced. Looking at some guidance for control measurements, it would appear the typical pipe driven i...

A person competent with probability and statistics will understand that the slightest change in the requirement may lead to a change in the methodolog...

I used all 1000 values from each source. Each bin was 0.01 wide. The lowest bin was from -0.08 to -0.07. The highest bin was from 0.07 to 0.08. I used...

I wondered if it was really necessary to get values from a website, rather than just using a minor modification of what Excel provides. I know spreads...

After following the lines of investigation suggested above, you will probably find several plausible options. So I would be investigating the politica...

There are situations where an absolute position is more helpful than relative positions among marks. For example, if all your carefully set marks get ...

The use of a * rather than a × indicate this is to be input to a computer (in some computer language) or a calculator. The result will depend on the c...

OK, I recognize "expected value" as a probability term of art with a definite definition. For nicely shaped distributions, it would coincide with the ...

There is something that bothers me about the original statement of the problem:"What is the most probable error that you will make in remarking the co...

When ability to remember the right words to look up in the index of a statistics book fail, there is always virtual experimentation.Using Excel, defin...

It's been around 8 years since I went to Montreal. You can use US dollars most places, but you might get a better rate if you use your debit card in a...

True, it's the cell phone that communicates your location to the voyeurs. Also, cell phones seem to still work in locations where GPS is not readable ...

How do you describe a dirt road>Curious discussionMy guess would be the correct position of the boundary is the center line at the time the easemen...

True about the difficulty of putting a monument in the center of a dirt road. However monumenting the edge of the right-of-way would allow the landown...