Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 38, No. 2, Papers from 23rd Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics (June 2011), pp. 377-392 (16 pages) Sampford's unequal probability sampling method is ...

1. Distinguish between probability and non-probability sampling and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. If you can not specify the probability that any given individual will be in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper deals with two schemes, π-inverse weights and best linear unbiased weights, for weighting of observations drawn by unequal ...

The New York Times and CBS News made big news in the polling world this weekend when they announced that they will begin using online survey panels from YouGov as part of their election coverage.

Why do pollsters make such a big deal about probability sampling? You'd think that choosing people to interview should be easy. Take three of these, four of those, and two of the other. But it's not.

Greg DePersio has 13+ years of professional experience in sales and SEO and 3+ years as a writer and editor. Simple random sampling is a method used to cull a smaller sample size from a larger ...

With a population of over 40 million users worldwide, a number doubling every year, the internet has become a medium with distinct business opportunities. To academic and commercial researchers, the ...