Nature

Survey Sampling and Estimation Methods

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 ...
CMS Wire

Surveys Gone Sideways: Avoid These Common Sampling Pitfalls

Targeting matters most. Surveying the wrong audience can lead to misleading data and poor decisions, even if the questions themselves are solid. Weighting shapes reality. Overrepresenting certain ...
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Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys

Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...
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On Comparisons of With and Without Replacement Sampling Strategies for Estimating Finite Population Mean in Randomized Response Surveys

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) ...

How an Indian Statistician Changed the Way the World Collects Data

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the Indian statistician who founded the Indian Statistical Institute and pioneered large-scale sample survey methodology, changed how the world collects data. His methods ...