Sampling of Populations: Methods and ApplicationsWiley, 26 feb 1999 - 568 páginas A unique, accessible guide to current practices in population sampling. Now in its third edition, this popular sampling text continues to provide a highly readable, practical treatment of the subject. Keeping the mathematics to a minimum, it walks the reader through real-world sample surveys-from sampling designs to problems of missing data and nonresponse to estimation procedures. This expanded and updated edition reflects the many developments in the field since the publication of the Second Edition, including the latest methods of multistage sampling, analysis of sample survey data, and software manipulation. Sampling of Populations, Third Edition offers: * A wealth of examples illustrating key statistical issues with data sets available for downloading over the Internet. * An emphasis on the most widely used sampling designs today, including completely revised chapters on cluster sampling designs. * A new chapter devoted to telephone sampling and interviewing techniques-contributed by Robert Casady and James M. Lepkowski, who have made many important contributions in the area of telephone surveys. * Illustrative examples detailing how statistical analysis can be performed by means of software now available for use on personal computers and designed specifically for analysis of sample survey data. * Many new and updated practice exercises. |
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Uses of Sample Surveys | 3 |
The Population and the Sample | 13 |
Selected Topics in Sample Design and Estimation Methodology | 14 |
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approximately chapter cluster sampling design coefficient of variation computation confidence interval discharged dead discussed elementary units enumeration units estimated mean estimated population estimated standard error estimated total field costs formulas given health centers hospitals households Illustrative Example listing units mean number mean square error method missing values N₁ n₂ number of listing number of patients number of persons nurse practitioners obtained one-stage cluster sampling person-hours physician population parameters population total possible samples poststratified PSUs random number ratio estimate records sample cluster sample survey sample total sampling distribution sampling fraction sampling frame sampling plan sampling units SE(xclu second stage selected shown in Table simple one-stage cluster simple random sampling simple two-stage cluster single-stage cluster sampling specifications standard error statistical stratified random sampling stratified sampling stratum subdomain SUDAAN systematic sampling take a sample telephone numbers total number true value two-stage cluster sampling unbiased estimate Var(x variable variance Xclu