background: correct statistical data plays a significant role in evaluating the performance of an organization. managers are mainly expected to use the results of statistical analysis and statisticians are assumed to collect, analyze and interpret the data. this study is aimed at investigating the causes of statistical inconsistencies from the viewpoint of managers and statisticians in centers ...

Statistical data often come with inconsistencies: records of people with negative ages, pregnant males, and underaged car drivers often populate statistical databases. National Statistical Offices (NSO) encode knowledge to detect these inconsistencies in so-called edit rules. These days, there is an increasing number of statistical data being published and linked on the Web using the RDF Data C...

Privacy preserving data mining and statistical disclosure control have introduced several methods for data perturbation that can be used for ensuring the privacy of data respondents. Such methods, as rank swapping and microaggregation, perturbate the data introducing some kind of noise. Nevertheless, it is usual that data are edited with care after collection to remove inconsistencies, and such...

The notion of representative statistical ensembles, correctly representing statistical systems, is strictly formulated. This notion allows for a proper description of statistical systems, avoiding inconsistencies in theory. As an illustration, a Bose-condensed system is considered. It is shown that a self-consistent treatment of the latter, using a representative ensemble, always yields a conse...