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 ...