@InProceedings{APR07, author = { Javed A. Aslam and Raluca A. Popa and Ronald L. Rivest }, title = { On Estimating the Size and Confidence of a Statistical Audit }, url = { http://www.usenix.org/events/evt07/tech/full_papers/aslam/aslam.pdf }, urla = { EVT'07 }, booktitle = { Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop }, date = { 2007 }, editor = { Ray Martinez and David Wagner }, publisher = { USENIX }, OPTyear = { 2007 }, OPTmonth = { August 5--6, }, eventdate = { 2007-08-05/2007-08-06 }, eventtitle = { EVT '07 }, venue = { Boston, Massachusetts }, OPTnote = { (Proceedings on-line only.) }, abstract = { We consider the problem of statistical sampling for auditing elections, and we develop a remarkably simple and easily-calculated upper bound for the sample size necessary for determining with probability at least $c$ if a given set of $n$ objects contains fewer than $b$ ``bad'' objects. }, }