Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

In her 1956 American Statistical Association Presidential Address titled "Statistical Frontiers," Gertrude Cox outlined her view of what the future held for statisticians. Seven paragraphs of that ...

One possible explanation for the variability in estimates across the different nonprobability samples is the range of methods that online sample vendors employ. They differ on recruitment, weighting ...

Bradburn, N. (1978). Respondent burden. Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association, 1978, 35-40. Available: https ...

Cochran (1977) outlines eleven steps in the planning of a survey. Good sampling methods must exist in the environment of all of these steps. These steps are (1) a statement of the survey objectives, ...

Learn the distinctions between simple and stratified random sampling. Understand how researchers use these methods to accurately represent data populations.

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 78, No. 1 (May 2016), pp. 66-77 (12 pages) We consider the problem of unbiased estimation of a finite population mean (or proportion) ...

The Forced Displacement Survey (FDS) is a programme designed to streamline and standardize surveys that collect data on forcibly displaced people. Currently, UNHCR has two primary data sources: ...