Description
Book SynopsisA trusted classic on the key methods in population samplingnow in a modernized and expanded new edition Sampling of Populations, Fourth Edition continues to serve as an all-inclusive resource on the basic and most current practices in population sampling. Maintaining the clear and accessible style of the previous edition, this book outlines the essential statistical methodsfor survey design and analysis, while also exploring techniques that have developed over the past decade.
The Fourth Edition successfully guides the reader through the basic concepts and procedures that accompany real-world sample surveys, such as sampling designs, problems of missing data, statistical analysis of multistage sampling data, and nonresponse and poststratification adjustment procedures. Rather than employ a heavily mathematical approach, the authors present illustrative examples that demonstrate the rationale behind common steps in the sampling process, from creating effe
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Table of Contents
Tables.
Boxes.
Figures.
Getting Files from the Wiley ftp and Internet Sites.
List of Data Sites Provides on Web Site.
Preface to the Fourth Edition.
Part 1: Basic Concepts.
1. Use of Sample Surveys.
2. The Population and the Sample.
Part 2: Major Sampling Designs and Estimation Procedures.
3. Simple Random Sampling.
4. Systematic Sampling.
5. Stratification and Stratified Random Sampling.
6. Stratified Random Sampling: Further Issues.
7. Ratio Estimation.
8. Cluster Sampling: Introduction and Overview.
9. Simple One-Stage Cluster Sampling.
10. Two-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters Sampled with Equal Probability.
11. Cluster Sampling in Which Clusters Are Sampled with Unequal Probability: Probability Proportional to Size Sampling.
12. Variance Estimation in Complex Sample Surveys.
Part 3: Selected Topics in Sample Survey Methodology.
13. Nonresponse and Missing Data in Sample Surveys.
14. Selected Topics in Sample Design and Estimation Methodology.
15. Telephone Survey Sampling (Michael W. Link and Mansour Fahimi).
16. Constructing the Survey Weights (Paul P. Biemer and Sharon L. Christ).
17. Strategies for Design-Based Analysis of Sample Survey Data.
Appendix.
Answers to Selected Exercises.
Index.
