Sampling of Populations

PAUL S. LEVY is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the American College of Epidemiology and has been widely published during his long and distinguished career as a statistician and epidemiologist. Most recently he served as section editor for design of experiments and sample surveys of the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. STANLEY LEMESHOW is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has published numerous articles in statistical and biomedical journals. In addition to this book, he has coauthored Applied Logistic Regression (Wiley), Adequacy of Sample Size in Health Studies, and Applied Survival Analysis (Wiley).

BASIC CONCEPTS. Uses of Sample Surveys. The Population and the Sample. MAJOR SAMPLING DESIGNS AND ESTIMATION PROCEDURES. Simple Random Sampling. Systematic Sampling. Stratification and Stratified Random Sampling. Stratified Random Sampling: Further Issues. Ratio Estimation. Cluster Sampling: Introduction and Overview. Sample One--Stage Cluster Sampling. Two--Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters Sampled with Equal Probability. Cluster Sampling in Which Clusters are Sampled with Unequal Probability: Probability Proportional to Size Sampling. Variance Estimation in Complex Sample Surveys. SELECTED TOPICS IN SAMPLE SURVEY METHODOLOGY. Nonresponse and Missing Data in Sample Surveys. Selected Topics in Sample Design and Estimation Methodology. Telephone Sampling. Strategies for Design--Based Analysis of Sample Survey Data. Appendix. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.