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This book developed out of a desire for a sampling course that would fiteasily into a graduate program in statistics. Survey sampling is a relativelyyoung discipline, achieving acceptance in the 1940’s and 1950’s, primarily forofficial statistics. As the discipline has matured, analytic use of survey datahas increased inside and outside government. Also statistical models, such asthose for nonresponse and for small area estimation, are now considered partof survey methodology. As a result, the overlap between survey sampling andother areas of statistics has increased, and the mutual dependence makes itimportant that survey sampling be an integral part of statistics.Originally, survey sampling was differentiated from other areas by the sizeof the data sets and by the number of estimates produced. In such a settingsurvey statisticians prefer techniques with broad applicability, and that requirea minimum of assumptions. Procedures are sought that are nearly designunbiased, but no claim of optimality is made for a particular statistic. Thesestandard survey techniques are introduced in Chapter One. I have adopted atenor and notation similar to statistics texts in other specialities to m

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Author
Wayne A. Fuller
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780470523551
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, Stem

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