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Statistical errors
Name(s):
Discrepancies in official statistics
Disagreement over appropriate statistic methods
Broader
Human errors and miscalculations
Narrower
Inadequate environmental statistics
Deficiencies in national statistics
Lack of comparability of international statistics
Related
Misuse of statistics
This problem is a member of 7 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Inadequate data
Statistical understatement
[in 1 loop]
Distortion of indicators of achievement
[in 3 loops]
Inadequate social and demographic statistics
[in 1 loop]
Increasing scepticism about the accuracy of official information
[in 2 loops]
Aggravated by
Governmental bias in statistics
Errors in document processing systems
Unethical practices of regulatory inspectors
Strategy(ies)
Collecting statistics
Agreeing appropriate statistic methods
Correcting official statistics
Maintaining official statistics
Reducing statistical errors
Creating statistical errors
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems