SAMPLING THEORY AND PRACTICE

Abstract

The book is divided into 3 parts clustering 17 chapters. It covers the basic aspects of basic sampling theory and deal with new research themes. Practical issues of methodological aspects of survey are considered and produced some chapters.
Basic Concepts in Survey Sampling are introduced in the first chapter which is followed by presenting Simple Single-Stage Sampling , the use of some grouping in the third chapter comprising Stratified Sampling and Cluster Sampling. Unequal Probability Sampling is the next chapter. Are remarkable the chapters on using Models for estimation and prediction. They include Model based estimation , Calibration ,Weighting, Regression Analysis, Estimating Equations, Empirical and Likelihood Methods derived from frequentist and Bayesian approaches. The book devotes large discussions on the handling with missing data and using resampling for data analysis. A series of chapters are devoted to practical issues of sampling survey as Household Surveys, Telephone and Web Surveys, Natural Resource Inventory Surveys, using graphs structures (Adaptive and Network Surveys), Dual Frame and Multiple Frame Surveys Finally, Non-probability Survey Samples issues are briefly discussed. This book will be good both for teaching and as a consulting source for survey sampling practice. The authors assumed that the reader is at home with probability and statistical inference .