Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Valliant, Richard (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dever, Jill A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kreuter, Frauke (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences,
• Θέματα: Statistics .; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

The goal of this book is to put an array of tools at the fingertips of students, practitioners, and researchers by explaining approaches long used by survey statisticians, illustrating how existing software can be used to solve survey problems, and developing some specialized software where needed....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 An Overview of Sample Design and Weighting
• 2 Project 1: Design a Single-Stage Personnel Survey
• 3 Sample Design and Sample Size for Single-Stage Surveys
• 4 Power Calculations and Sample Size Determination
• 5 Mathematical Programming
• 6 Outcome Rates and Effect on Sample Size
• 7 The Personnel Survey Design Project: One Solution
• 8 Project 2: Designing an Area Sample
• 9 Designing Multistage Samples
• 10 Area Sampling
• 11 The Area Sample Design: One Solution
• 12 Project 3: Weighting a Personnel Survey
• 13 Basic Steps in Weighting
• 14 Calibration and Other Uses of Auxiliary Data in Weighting
• 15 Variance Estimation
• 16 Weighting the Personnel Survey: One Solution
• 17 Multiphase Designs
• 18 Nonprobability Samples
• 19 Process Control and Quality Measures
• Appendix A: Notation Glossary
• Appendix B: Data Sets
• Appendix C: R Functions Used in this Book
• References
• Solutions to Selected Exercises
• Index.