Sampling: Design And Analysis Paperback 2

New

Sharon L. Lohr

This edition is a reprint of the second edition published by Cengage Learning, Inc. Reprinted with permission. What is the unemployment rate? How many adults have high blood pressure? What is the total area of land planted with soybeans? Sampling: Design and Analysis tells you how to design and analyze surveys to answer these and other questions. This authoritative text, used as a standard reference by numerous survey organizations, teaches sampling using real data sets from social sciences, public opinion research, medicine, public health, economics, agriculture, ecology, and other fields. The book is accessible to students from a wide range of statistical backgrounds. By appropriate choice of sections, it can be used for a graduate class for statistics students or for a class with students from business, sociology, psychology, or biology. Readers should be familiar with concepts from an introductory statistics class including linear regression; optional sections contain the statistical theory, for readers who have studied mathematical statistics.

9780367273415

English

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11 Apr 2019

596

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"Lohr provides a vast amount of verbal explanation to guide the nonmathematical reader, yet she provides derivations of many results and a 24-page list of references. Citations are well integrated into the reading...The new edition has added a number of topics that are timely relative to current work in survey methodology. These include such topics as Internet surveys and resampling techniques...One of the distinguishing characteristics of this book is the integration of model-based sampling as well as the traditional methods dating from the 1940s. The exposition is very well written and should be accessible to a wide audience. (this is an excellent text. The exposition is extraordinarily fine and the coverage broad and up-to-date." ~Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics "This is a textbook for a graduate course in survey sampling as well as for those in applied fields...Lohr, in each chapter, introduces the basic concept to be covered, gives il and presents many exercises for students to work out. Her examples are not toy ones, most come from actual (often complex) surveys, and the exercises both advance the learning of new concepts and enable the methodology just learned...This new and expanded second edition provides a wonderful introduction to sample survey methodology. In a clear fashion Lohr introduces basic concepts, while simultaneously covering a wide variety of topics." ~Journal of the American Statistical Association