Discover how simple random sampling ensures accurate and unbiased population research, offering efficiency and fairness over ...

The work of Royall and Herson (1973a, 1973b), ensuring the robustness of the standard ratio estimator against polynomial superpopulation models by choosing balanced samples, is extended to a more ...

It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

Random sampling is the quickest, most feasible and most effective means of assessing the U.S. population. By Louis Kaplow Mr. Kaplow is a professor of law and economics at Harvard. We are flying blind ...

A new telephone survey experiment finds that, despite major structural differences, an opinion poll drawn from a commercial voter file can produce results similar to those from a sample based on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The permutation distribution induced upon a finite population by the order of selection under successive sampling is closely related to the ...

A study by the universities of Cordoba and Seville develops a method that makes it possible to verify, easily and quickly, whether an olive plantation is traditional, intensive, or super-intensive.