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, ...

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 ...

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a type of quality control which uses statistics to monitor and maintain quality. Sampling SPC uses graphical techniques including histograms, scatter plots, and ...

1. The government has been dramatically increasing the use of data mining to identify potential health care fraud and data analysis to support liability and damages in False Claims Act cases. 2. One ...