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Sampling of populations : methods and applications /

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This book is an all-inclusive resource on the basic and most current practices in population sampling. Find the essential statistical methods for survey design and analysis, while also exploring techniques that have developed over the past decade. Understand the basic concepts and procedures that ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levy, Paul S.
Other Authors: Lemeshow, Stanley
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2008]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Series:Wiley series in survey methodology.
Subjects:
Population > Statistical methods.
Sampling (Statistics)
Data Collection > methods.
Sampling Studies.
Statistics as Topic.
Population > Statistics.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Basic concepts
  • 1. Use of sample surveys
  • 2. The population and the sample
  • Part 2. Major sampling designs and estimation procedures
  • 3. Simple random sampling
  • 4. systematic sampling
  • 5. stratification and stratified random sampling
  • 6. Stratified random sampling: further issues
  • 7. Ratio estimation
  • 8. Cluster sampling: introduction and overview
  • 9. Simple one-stage cluster sampling
  • 10. Two-stage cluster sampling; clusters sampled with equal probability
  • 11. Cluster sampling in which clusters are sampled with unequal probability: probability proportional to size sampling
  • 12. Variance estimation in complex sample surveys
  • Part 3. Selected topics in sample survey methodology
  • 13. Nonresponse and missing data in sample surveys
  • 14. Selected topics in sample design and estimation methodology
  • 15. Telephone survey sampling
  • 16. Constructing the survey weights
  • 17. Strategies for design-based analysis of a sample survey data
  • Appendix
  • Answers to selected exercises
  • Index.