Following the chronological development of sample surveys, this book provides an analysis of the mathematical and statistical theory of the subject.
The text begins with the mathematics of randomized sampling designs as well as a general treatment of estimation of population totals through the Horvits-Thompson estimator and its variants. The book then examines approximations and limit theorems for the distribution of the estimators and design-based estimation of other population quantities. It concludes with chapters concerning inference from surveys.
Theory of Sample Surveys will assist in a range of applications, including:
auditing
quality monitoring
market research
wildlife surveys
mining exploration
agriculture and business surveys
population health studies
This book acts as an exceptional resource for survey methodologists in government organizations as well as lecturers and graduate students in statistics and biostatistics.
- ISBN10 041231780X
- ISBN13 9780412317804
- Publish Date 1 August 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Chapman & Hall/CRC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 312
- Language English