Student Seminar Series - December 16, 2004
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College of Liberal Arts

Estimating Sales Tax Liability for a Corporation

Dawn Sargent



Thursday, December 16, 2005
10:00 AM, 170 Ford Hall
Minneapolis, East Bank Campus



Abstract

We consider the problem of estimating the sales tax liability of a Corporation based on a random sample of their accounting records. A unique aspect of this problem is that most of the records in the sample will contain no errors. We will compare the standard design based and Bayesian solutions to this finite sampling problem.