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6. If no "good" data can be used from within the ctrlnum, we assign some type of "out of range" value.
6. If no "good" data can be used from within the ctrlnum, we assign some type of "out of range" value.
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==''Utah v. Evans''==
''Utah v. Evans'', 182 F. Supp. 2d 1165 (2001) is the leading court case about the use of Hot-Deck Imputation in the census. After the use of Hot-Deck techniques in the 2000 census, one of Utah's congressional seats was appointed to North Carolina. Utah challenged this, on the grounds that Hot-Deck Imputation is a form of sampling, which is prohibited.
The District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division ruled that "that HN22Go to the description of this Headnote.the Constitution does not prohibit the use of narrowly tailored statistical methodologies, such as hot deck imputation, for the purpose of improving the accuracy of the decennial census and furthering "the constitutional goal of equal representation."
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