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Sampling techniques

William G. Cochran

(Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics, . Applied probability and statistics)(A Wiley publication in applied statistics)

Wiley, c1977

3rd ed

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 400-411

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Clearly demonstrates a wide range of sampling methods now in use by governments, in business, market and operations research, social science, medicine, public health, agriculture, and accounting. Gives proofs of all the theoretical results used in modern sampling practice. New topics in this edition include the approximate methods developed for the problem of attaching standard errors or confidence limits to nonlinear estimates made from the results of surveys with complex plans.

Table of Contents

1 Chapter Introduction 1 2 Chapter Simple Random Sampling 18 3 Chapter Sampling Proportions and Percentages 50 4 Chapter The Estimation of sample Size 72 5 Chapter Further Aspects of Stratified Sampling 115 6 Chapter Ratio Estimators 150 7 Chapter Regression Estimators 189 8 Chapter Systematic Sampling 205 9 Chapter Single-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters of Equal Sizes 233 9. A Chapter Single-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters of Unequal Sizes 249 10 Subsampling With Units of Equal Size 274 11 Chapter Subsampling With Units of Unequal Sizes 292 12 Chapter Double sampling 327 13 Chapter Sources of Error in Surveys 359 References 400 Answers to Exercises 412 Author Index 419 Subject Index 422

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