Square root biased sampling
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Square root biased sampling
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Square root biased sampling is a sampling method proposed by William H. Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist, for use in airport screenings. It is the mathematically optimal compromise between simple random sampling and strong profiling that most quickly finds a rare malfeasor, given fixed screening resources. Using this method, if a group is n times as likely as the average to be a security risk, then persons from that group will be n times as likely to undergo additional scr
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