Sampling of Populations: Methods and Applications (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)
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Book Overview
A unique, accessible guide to current practices in population sampling. Now in its third edition, this popular sampling text continues to provide a highly readable, practical treatment of the subject. Keeping the mathematics to a minimum, it walks the reader through real-world sample surveys-from sampling designs to problems of missing data and nonresponse to estimation procedures. This expanded and updated edition reflects the many developments in the field since the publication of the Second Edition, including the latest methods of multistage sampling, analysis of sample survey data, and software manipulation. Sampling of Populations, Third Edition offers: * A wealth of examples illustrating key statistical issues with data sets available for downloading over the Internet. * An emphasis on the most widely used sampling designs today, including completely revised chapters on cluster sampling designs. * A new chapter devoted to telephone sampling and interviewing techniques-contributed by Robert Casady and James M. Lepkowski, who have made many important contributions in the area of telephone surveys. * Illustrative examples detailing how statistical analysis can be performed by means of software now available for use on personal computers and designed specifically for analysis of sample survey data. * Many new and updated practice exercises.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0471155756
ISBN13:9780471155751
Release Date:February 1999
Publisher:Wiley-Interscience
Length:568 Pages
Weight:2.07 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Both authors are from public health schools. One is from Amherst, MA. Go Umass! This does make studying statistics more interesting. One can easily adapt the sampling design and methods to marketing surveys that are required of MBA students.
A review, solely about the text.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I am a Ph.D. student in public health (epidemiology), and I already have a Ph.D. in the behavioral sciences. I will sign my name, unlike the other writer. Rather than solely talk about the issues of the text, the student complains about the administration of the course in question. I found the text to be readable and useful. My findings concur with the practitioner and other reviewers in Columbus, OH. I found the use of the solutions manual to be helpful in my understanding of the material. The complaints voiced by the "stats student" are best ignored. I was in that course section, and those comments are not relevant to the worth of the text.
A Practitioner's Resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Levy and Lemeshow's text provides practitioners with precise formulas and terrific insights into alternative sampling methods. The exercises at the end of the chapters are particularly useful.
Clear and to the point.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The best thing about this book is that it summarizes all the equations in boxes throughout the book. Therefore you don't have to hunt down the equations you need, unlike with many other statistics books. The book's explanations are clear and to the point, and therefore makes a great desk reference.The one sole downside to this text is its price. $90 is a bit steep for this small light weight volume.
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