Students learn about sampling by tracing improvements in sampling procedures over the twentieth century. Scientific inquiries involving flawed sampling are illustrated and discussed using the Literary ...

Probability sampling has enjoyed a privileged position for good survey practice since the beginning of last century. Jerzy Neyman (1934) decisively contributed to this situation with his theory for ...

Most statistical methodology in use today is designed for sampling schemes or experimental designs in which the sample size or number of data points is regarded as a fixed, present parameter. This is ...

To study the relationships between the Eating Inventory (EI) factors (restraint, disinhibition and hunger), body adiposity and prevalence of selected diseases in a quota sample of Czech adults. The ...

Activists challenging the validity of the reservations for Marathas have questioned the objectivity of the data gathering exercise undertaken to establish the need for a quota. Bombay high court (File ...

In a regression model, the joint distribution for each finite sample of units is determined by a function $p_{{\bf x}}({\bf y})$ depending only on the list of ...

Commercial Radio Australia and The Nielsen Company have announced that quota sampling of the P10 – 17 and P18 – 24 age groups will be tested from the next survey (April 2009 – Wave 3), as part of the ...