This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Sample surveys are used to investigate occurrence and determinants of diseases in populations. Their reliability is influenced by quality of ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 44, No. 2 (1995), pp. 173-194 (22 pages) General population surveys in Britain tend to use either the electoral registers ...

Peter Kellner has written a challenging article with the straightforward title Down With Random Samples(Kellner, 2007). His opening lines are: “We all know what perfection looks like. It is a pure ...

The method of systematic random sampling (METHOD=SYS) selects units at a fixed interval throughout the sampling frame or stratum after a random start. PROC SURVEYSELECT chooses the first unit randomly ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GfK has named Mansour Fahimi, Ph.D., as Senior Vice President of Sampling Statistics, signaling the company’s continued commitment to the highest standards in online ...

Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS), an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 5,103 ...