Social and economic scientists are tempted to use emerging data sources like big data to compile information about finite populations as an alternative for traditional survey samples. These data ...

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 38 million people around the world and is showing no signs of going away any time soon. Researchers worldwide are frantically working on developing an effective ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Empirical likelihood is a popular tool for incorporating auxiliary information and constructing nonparametric confidence intervals. In survey ...

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 ...

Since the inception of rigorous survey work, researchers have been forced—by time and budget constraints—to rely on a slew of sampling methods to estimate population parameters. Sampling is, of course ...

Financial distress prediction plays an important role in the decision-making process of stock and bond investors, commercial banks and commercial credit adjusters. The effectiveness of financial ...

The analysis in this report is based on a survey conducted August 7-14, 2013 among a sample of 1,052 adults, 18 years of age or older. The survey was conducted by the GfK Group using KnowledgePanel, ...