Sampling Techniques, Third Edition

✍ Scribed by William G. Cochran

• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
1 Introduction......Page 15
2 Simple Random Sampling......Page 32
3 Sampling Proportions and Percentages......Page 64
4 The Estimation of Sample Size......Page 86
5 Stratified Random Sampling......Page 103
5A Further Aspects of Stratified Sampling......Page 129
6 Ratio Estimators......Page 164
7 Regression Estimators......Page 203
8 Systematic Sampling......Page 219
9 Single-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters of Equal Sizes......Page 247
9A Single-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters of Unequal Sizes......Page 263
10 Subsampling With Units of Equal Size......Page 288
11 Subsampling With Units of Unequal Sizes......Page 306
12 Double Sampling......Page 341
13 Sources of Error in Surveys......Page 373
References......Page 414
Answers to Exercises......Page 426
Author Index......Page 433
Subject Index......Page 436