Estimating the Total Overstatement Error in Accounting Populations
会计总体中总高估误差的估计
Auditors wishing to estimate the total amount of errors in a set of accounts have tended to use estimation procedures which rely on approximate normality for large sample sizes. Since this reliance is often not well-founded for sample sizes used in auditing practice, efforts have been made to circumvent this difficulty. This paper will briefly describe these efforts and then present a new approach based on the multinomial probability distribution which yields confidence…