The relation between consensus and accuracy in low-to-moderate accuracy tasks: An auditing example

Auditing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 100-121

  Davis, Elizabeth B ^a   Kennedy, S Jane ^a   Maines, Laureen A ^a  

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Author keywords

Accuracy; Consensus; Error frequency estimation; Industry knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039383357     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2000.19.1.101     Document Type: Article

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