One of the best ways the world has to get a clear view of COVID-19 is going underused. It’s time to exploit the power of random sampling. Last September, the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

Max-stable random fields play a central role in modeling extreme value phenomena. We obtain an explicit formula for the conditional probability in general max-linear models, which include a large ...

Ranked set sampling as suggested by McIntyre (1952, Journal of Agricultural Research 3, 385-390) and Takahasi and Wakimoto (1968, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 20, 1-31) may be ...

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 ...