Recent years have seen an increasing interest in probability sampling, and some proponents of the method have urged its use in public opinion surveys. This article reports on a comparative study of ...

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 ...

The Federal Government of the United States has collected and published an increasing volume of statistics from the founding of the republic, but its contributions to statistical theory and method did ...

By Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Scott Keeter, Nick Hatley, Kyley McGeeney and Alejandra Gimenez As the costs and nonresponse rates of traditional, probability-based surveys seem to grow each year, ...

UK – At a lecture hosted by the International Journal of Market Research (IJMR), researchers from Kantar, NatCen and Ipsos Mori discussed the future of random probability sampling. Random probability ...

Descriptive statistics, basic concepts of probability and sampling with the aim of introducing fundamental notions and techniques of statistical inference. Prerequisite: Math 10 or a score of 51 or ...