Consider a population of 70 individuals, for which you wish to estimate the mean annual income, μ. Assume that you have decided to use the following estimation procedure to make your estimate: simple ...

Negative margin status is an important predictor for local control and overall outcome in head and neck cancers. 1, 2, 3 Frozen section analysis is a useful tool for assessing margin status ...

With statistical sampling, counsel can simplify damage analyses, avoid potential issues with incomplete or missing data, and minimize the risk ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 42, No. 4 (1993), pp. 585-601 (17 pages) In this paper two-dimensional systematic sampling of land use is considered. Data ...

The SURVEYMEANS procedure uses the Taylor expansion method to estimate sampling errors of estimators based on complex sample designs. This method obtains a linear approximation for the estimator and ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Academic survey researchers tend to differ ...

It is well known that sampling variability, if not properly taken into account, affects various ecologically important analyses. Statistical inference for stochastic ...