A simple random sample is a subset of a statistical population in which each member of the subset has an equal probability of ...

It’s a small example of the seismic shift needed. It’s not perfect, but if we’re able to bring a bit more humanity into the here and now, it’s a start.

The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both landline and cell phones have a greater probability of being included in the combined sample and adjusts for household ...

Heyer and Berven (1973, Ecology 54, 642-645) modified this procedure by selecting the median of a group of sample permutations. Zahl (1977, Ecology 58, 907-913) introduced the jackknife estimation of ...

Generalized variance functions (GVF's) are used in a number of sample surveys as a convenient method of publishing sampling errors. The method consists of estimating the relative variance (relvariance ...

The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Sept. 2-9, 2014, among a national sample of 2,002 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District ...