Sampling is a tool researchers use for marketing, sociology or empirical study. In order for sampling to be productive, the data analysis must not be tainted. There are techniques for creating a ...

This paper presents and discusses some new results on the second-order inclusion probabilities of a systematic probability proportional to size sample drawn from a randomly ordered list, also called ...

A family of sampling schemes with inclusion probability proportional to size is proposed. The schemes are based upon certain combinatorial properties of balanced incomplete block designs and are ...

If you specify the option METHOD=PPS, PROC SURVEYSELECT selects units with probability proportional to size and without replacement. The selection probability for unit i in stratum h equals n h Z hi .

The problem of estimating the variance of the ratio estimator in sampling with probability proportional to aggregate size is investigated. The form of nonnegative unbiased variance estimators is found ...

A state health agency plans to conduct a state-wide survey of a variety of different hospital services. The agency plans to select a probability sample of individual discharge records within hospitals ...

Description of a new sampling design for price indices on services In the last decade, Statistics Netherlands (SN) has started publishing service producer price indices (SPPI) for a range of service ...