Kim, C.S.; Hallahan, Charles B.; Lindamood, W.A.; … - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 33 (2004) 2
USDA uses the concept of "publish-ability" rather than statistical reliability of an estimate for quality validation of USDA estimates, which is solely based on the sample size and the coefficient of variation (CV). We demonstrate conceptually how the reliability of the sample mean can be tested...