How Do Actuaries Use Data Containing Errors?: Models of Error Detection and Error Correction

Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ)

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 27-36

  Klein, Barbara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

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EID: 85001857650     PISSN: 10401628     EISSN: 15337979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/irmj.1997100103     Document Type: Article

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