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Sampling Techniques
William G. Cochran (Author)
9780471162407, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 14 September 1977
448 pages
24.2 x 17.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.797 kg
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.
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
Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]
