Probability sampling has enjoyed a privileged position for good survey practice since the beginning of last century. Jerzy Neyman (1934) decisively contributed to this situation with his theory for ...
Students learn about sampling by tracing improvements in sampling procedures over the twentieth century. Scientific inquiries involving flawed sampling are illustrated and discussed using the Literary ...
It’s a truism that even large samples can be misleading if they are biased or, as market and social researchers say, if they are not representative for the universe. Therefore, it is essential whether ...