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 ...