Sampling of Populations (eBook)

Paul S. Levy is Senior Research Fellow at RTI International and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois. A Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the American College of Epidemiology, Dr. Levy has authored or coauthored over 225 articles in his areas of research interest, which include sample survey methodology, design of epidemiological studies, and methodology relevant to analysis of data from observational studies. Stanley Lemeshow, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics and Dean of the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University. He has over thirty-five years of academic experience in the areas of regression, categorical data methods, and sampling methods. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Lemeshow is the coauthor of Applied Survival Analysis, Second Edition and Applied Logistic Regression, Second Edition, both published by Wiley.

Tables.

Boxes.

Figures.

Getting Files from the Wiley ftp and Internet Sites.

List of Data Sites Provides on Web Site.

Preface to the Fourth Edition.

Part 1: Basic Concepts.

1. Use of Sample Surveys.

2. The Population and the Sample.

Part 2: Major Sampling Designs and Estimation
Procedures.

3. Simple Random Sampling.

4. Systematic Sampling.

5. Stratification and Stratified Random Sampling.

6. Stratified Random Sampling: Further Issues.

7. Ratio Estimation.

8. Cluster Sampling: Introduction and Overview.

9. Simple One-Stage Cluster Sampling.

10. Two-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters Sampled with Equal
Probability.

11. Cluster Sampling in Which Clusters Are Sampled with Unequal
Probability: Probability Proportional to Size Sampling.

12. Variance Estimation in Complex Sample Surveys.

Part 3: Selected Topics in Sample Survey Methodology.

13. Nonresponse and Missing Data in Sample Surveys.

14. Selected Topics in Sample Design and Estimation
Methodology.

15. Telephone Survey Sampling (Michael W. Link and Mansour
Fahimi).

16. Constructing the Survey Weights (Paul P. Biemer and Sharon
L. Christ).

17. Strategies for Design-Based Analysis of Sample Survey
Data.

Appendix.

Answers to Selected Exercises.

Index.

"The book remains a very appropriately written text for classroom use, especially for students studying public health or epidemiology, or for undergraduate majors in statistics and related fields." (Biometrics, June 2009)