On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> How would that work, even conceptually? (By which I mean, how would
> it be distinguishable from cooking the books?) I'm no statistician,
> so this is an honest, if basic, question.
It's standard statistics. I'm not enough of a math-head to go into detail, but I'm sure we've got someone here who could do it.