Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 61, No. 1, Sample Surveys (Apr., 1999), pp. 133-144 (12 pages) The polya posterior gives a noninformative Bayesian justification ...

Giles (2007) presents a summary of the debate that began as soon as Burnham et al. (2006) published their Iraq Mortality Survey (IMS) results in the British journal The Lancet. His article starts: ...

A reasonably broad class of models for analyzing two-stage samples is considered. For models in this class, ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates are best linear unbiased estimates (BLUE's) and a ...

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 ...