Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

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For the estimation of the population total of a character y, defined over a finite population of known size, "optimum" sampling strategies for the case when auxiliary information H of a type commonly ...

The analysis in this report is based on a web survey conducted January18-24, 2013 among a sample of 1,041 adults, 18 years of age or older. The survey was conducted by GfK Knowledge Networks (KN) ...

The accuracy of three estimators of sampling variance using non-replacement probability lattice samples was determined empirically on a microuniverse. A simple split-sample scheme, although biased, ...

By Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Scott Keeter, Nick Hatley, Kyley McGeeney and Alejandra Gimenez As the costs and nonresponse rates of traditional, probability-based surveys seem to grow each year, ...

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