Student Seminar Series - August 29, 2006
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College of Liberal Arts

Estimating Sales Tax Liability for a Corporation

Dawn Sargent


Tuesday, August 29, 2006
2:30 PM, 300 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 population sampling problem.