This example illustrates the use of regression analysis in a simple random cluster sampling design. The data are from S rndal, Swenson, and Wretman (1992, p. 652). A total of 284 Swedish ...

Consider the example in the section "Stratified Sampling". The study population is a junior high school with a total of 4,000 students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Researchers want to know how much these ...

To calculate intra-cluster and intra-household design effects and intra-class correlation coefficients for dietary nutrients obtained from a 24 h record-assisted recall. There were 125 children in 50 ...

Strip adaptive cluster sampling is extended to situations where the primary units have unequal numbers of secondary units. Primary units are selected with replacement and with probabilities ...

Background. To assess the quality of supplementary immunization activities (SIAs), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has used cluster lot quality assurance sampling (C-LQAS) methods since ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the fusion estimation problem in clustered sensor networks (CSN). A set of sensors are divided into several clusters and independently observe outputs of a plant ...