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Sampling: Design and Analysis, Third Edition
Coming in November. Pre-order from CRC Press, bookshop.org, or Amazon
New for the third edition: Two downloadable supplementary books on using R and SAS® software to select and analyze sample.
“The level is appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level statistics major. Sampling: Design and Analysis (SDA) will also benefit a non-statistics major with a desire to understand the concepts of sampling from a finite population. A student with patience to delve into the rigor of survey statistics will gain even more from the content that SDA offers. The updates to SDA have potential to enrich traditional survey sampling classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The new discussions of low response rates, non-probability surveys, and internet as a data collection mode hold particular value, as these statistical issues have become increasingly important in survey practice in recent years … I would eagerly adopt the new edition of SDA as the required textbook.”
– EMILY BERG
Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics
Order from CRC Press, Amazon, or your local independent bookseller.
Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics provides a guide to interpreting the crime statistics you see in the newspaper. Where do the statistics come from, and how accurate are they? This book tells you how to distinguish good statistics from bad – even if you have had no training in statistics – and what to look for when interpreting a statistic.
Sampling: Design & Analysis, Second Edition
The second edition of Sampling: Design and Analysis was published in 2010 by Cengage and is now reprinted by CRC Press. Order from CRC Press or Amazon.
“For the statistical theory and methods of sampling: Sampling: Design and Analysis, by Sharon Lohr (Arizona State University). This is a great book, combining the practical orientation of Kish (1965) with the clear notation of Cochran (1977). No other book I know of comes close to Lohr’s.”