Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

• Main Authors: Valliant, Richard (Author), Dever, Jill A. (Author), Kreuter, Frauke (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences ; 51
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

Survey sampling is fundamentally an applied field.  The goal in this book is to put an array of tools at the fingertips of practitioners by explaining approaches long used by survey statisticians, illustrating how existing software can be used to solve survey problems, and developing some specialize...