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After his celebrated indiscretions in the Atlantic last November, it was assumed that David Stockman had committed suicide by pen. Indeed, the Administration's star statistician and masterful Director of the Office of Management and Budget lowered his profile practically to the point of invisibility. He refused all requests for interviews and appeared on Capitol Hill only at closed-door sessions to negotiate the "final" 1982 budget package...
...that until quite recently had been insufficiently considered in the U.S. Yet it was American academics who helped the Japanese improve their products and change their image. One proposed device was quality-control circles, where workers and their supervisors discuss ways to improve output and standards on the job. Statistician W. Edwards Deming gave a proselytizing speech in Tokyo in 1950 on the virtues of quality control as a manufacturing technique. Since that time, Deming has been elevated in Japan to the status of industrial folk hero. The Deming quality-control award is now one of the most sought-after...
...less competitive schools, a projected decline in the number of 18-year-olds caused a scramble for applicants, Steve Ivan, a statistician for the College Board, said Monday...
...Winners should be described as 'estimated winners.' Avoid any reference to 'calling' races or 'declaring' winners. Do not refer to estimates as 'projections.' " How will the computer know what "estimates" to make? Mitofsky, a former Census Bureau statistician, has selected 4,000 key precincts nationwide to show him what is happening in each state. A CBS employee in each of those precincts will phone in results to a bank of computer-terminal operators in a soon-to-be demolished Manhattan warehouse. If this information seems to add up to a clear victory...
Kanfer first turned his attention from print to print-outs more than a year ago, when he asked John P. Dessauer, a leading book industry statistician, how TIME could have the nation's most accurate bestseller list. With advice from the American Booksellers Association, Dessauer devised a sample of some 1,200 stores in cities across the U.S., balanced according to location, type of store and local sales volume. The group includes dozens of independent shops and mini-chains, the two largest U.S. booksellers (B. Dalton and Walden) and one middle-sized national chain (Brentano's). Each participating...