“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.”
About the Book
What is the unemployment rate? How many adults have high blood pressure? What is the total area of land planted with soybeans? Sampling: Design and Analysis tells you how to design and analyze surveys to answer these and other questions. This authoritative text, used as a standard reference by numerous survey organizations, teaches sampling using real data sets from social sciences, public opinion research, medicine, public health, economics, agriculture, ecology, and other fields.
The book is accessible to students from a wide range of statistical backgrounds. By appropriate choice of sections, it can be used for a graduate class for statistics students or for a class with students from business, sociology, psychology, or biology. Readers should be familiar with concepts from an introductory statistics class including linear regression; optional sections contain the statistical theory, for readers who have studied mathematical statistics.
Originally published in 2010 by Cengage, Sampling: Design and Analysis, Second Edition, is now published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. This is a reprint of the 2010 book.
Resources + downloads
Although the book can be used with any computer package, much of the computer code in the download is written for use with SAS/STAT® software. You can download the free university version of SAS® software here.
Tobias Verbeke’s contributed R package SDaA contains the data sets from the first edition of the book for easy import into R.
The UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education has Stata® code for some of the examples in the book.
Instructor resources for the book, including a Solutions Manual, can be requested from the publisher. Visit the book web site, then click on Support Material.
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