Sampling of Populations
Now in its fourth edition, this popular sampling text is expanded and updated to incorporate the latest methods of multistage sampling, analysis of sample survey data, software manipulation, and other recent developments such as disclosure analysis and small area estimation.
- It guides the reader through real-world sample surveys clearly explaining how to create effective surveys and to analyze the information gathered.
- Illustrative examples detailing how statistical analysis can be performed by means of software designed specifically for analysis of sample survey data (SAS, SPSS, SUDDAN among them) have been woven throughout the text.
With its comprehensive presentation and wealth of relevant examples, Sampling of Populations, Fourth Edition is an ideal book for courses on survey sampling at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable reference for practicing statisticians who would like to refresh their knowledge of sampling techniques.
PAUL S. LEVY is Senior Research Statistician at RTI International and is also Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the American College of Epidemiology and has been widely published during his long and distinguished career as a statistician and epidemiologist. Most recently he served as section editor for design of experiments and sample surveys of the first and second editions of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biostatistics.
STANLEY LEMESHOW, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics in the?Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Dean of the Ohio State University School of Public Health in Columbus, Ohio. He is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, as well as an ardent producer of journal articles and workshops.