ABC News' polling methodology and standards

A summary of ABC News' polling standards and survey methodology follows.StandardsABC News maintains standards for disclosure, validity, reliability and unbiased content in survey research and ...
JSTOR Daily

On the Bias and Variance of Samples of Individuals: A Comparison of the Electoral Registers and Postcode Address File as Sampling Frames

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 ...
JD Supra

Upcoming Changes Regarding the Use of Statistical Sampling for Overpayment Estimation

In a September 28, 2018 Change Request to Medicare’s Program Integrity Manual (“PIM”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) updated its instructions to Medicare contractors regarding ...
Simon Fraser University

Example 62.2: Simple Random Cluster Sampling

This example illustrates the use of regression analysis in a simple random cluster sampling design. The data are from S rndal, Swenson, and Wretman (1992, p. 652). A total of 284 Swedish ...
Simon Fraser University

Sample Selection Methods

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...