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Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

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Abstract: This paper explores the optimization of the production process based on statistical sampling and integer linear programming. Initially, we designed a sampling inspection plan to help ...

A research team led by Prof. PAN Ding, Associate Professor from the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, and Dr. LI Shuo-Hui, Research Assistant Professor from the Department of Physics at the Hong ...

United Natural Foods (UNFI), a major distributor of groceries to Whole Foods and other retailers, said on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack, warning of disruptions to its ability to fulfill and ...

Accounting for interindividual variability through within-individual sampling required 40× fewer pairs of samples to achieve statistical significance with 4× to 5× greater effect size at significance.

The analysis of covariance (Ancova) is a widely used statistical technique for the comparison of groups with respect to a quantitative dependent variable in such a way that the comparison takes into ...

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