Preface |
Preface to the Second Edition |
Preface to the First Edition |
Introduction / 1: |
Basic Ideas of Sampling and Estimation / 1.1: |
Sampling Units / 1.2: |
Sampling and Nonsampling Errors / 1.3: |
Models in Sampling / 1.4: |
Adaptive and Nonadaptive Designs / 1.5: |
Some Sampling History / 1.6: |
Basic Sampling / Part I: |
Simple Random Sampling / 2: |
Selecting a Simple Random Sample / 2.1: |
Estimating the Population Mean / 2.2: |
Estimating the Population Total / 2.3: |
Some Underlying Ideas / 2.4: |
Random Sampling with Replacement / 2.5: |
Derivations for Random Sampling / 2.6: |
Model-Based Approach to Sampling / 2.7: |
Computing Notes / 2.8: |
Entering Data in R |
Sample Estimates |
Simulation |
Further Comments on the Use of Simulation |
Exercises |
Confidence Intervals / 3: |
Confidence Interval for the Population Mean or Total / 3.1: |
Finite-Population Central Limit Theorem / 3.2: |
Sampling Distributions / 3.3: |
Confidence Interval Computation / 3.4: |
Simulations Illustrating the Approximate Normality of a Sampling Distribution with Small n and N |
Daily Precipitation Data |
Sample Size / 4: |
Sample Size for Estimating a Population Mean / 4.1: |
Sample Size for Estimating a Population Total / 4.2: |
Sample Size for Relative Precision / 4.3: |
Estimating Proportions, Ratios, and Subpopulation Means / 5: |
Estimating a Population Proportion / 5.1: |
Confidence Interval for a Proportion / 5.2: |
Sample Size for Estimating a Proportion / 5.3: |
Sample Size for Estimating Several Proportions Simultaneously / 5.4: |
Estimating a Ratio / 5.5: |
Estimating a Mean, Total, or Proportion of a Subpopulation / 5.6: |
Estimating a Subpopulation Mean |
Estimating a Proportion for a Subpopulation |
Estimating a Subpopulation Total |
Unequal Probability Sampling / 6: |
Sampling with Replacement: The Hansen-Hurwitz Estimator / 6.1: |
Any Design: The Horvitz-Thompson Estimator / 6.2: |
Generalized Unequal-Probability Estimator / 6.3: |
Small Population Example / 6.4: |
Derivations and Comments / 6.5: |
Writing an R Function to Simulate a Sampling Strategy / 6.6: |
Comparing Sampling Strategies |
Making The Best Use Of Survey Data / Part II: |
Auxiliary Data and Ratio Estimation / 7: |
Ratio Estimator / 7.1: |
Small Population Illustrating Bias / 7.2: |
Derivations and Approximations for the Ratio Estimator / 7.3: |
Finite-Population Central Limit Theorem for the Ratio Estimator / 7.4: |
Ratio Estimation with Unequal Probability Designs / 7.5: |
Models in Ratio Estimation / 7.6: |
Types of Estimators for a Ratio |
Design Implications of Ratio Models / 7.7: |
Regression Estimation / 7.8: |
Linear Regression Estimator / 8.1: |
Regression Estimation with Unequal Probability Designs / 8.2: |
Regression Model / 8.3: |
Multiple Regression Models / 8.4: |
Design Implications of Regression Models / 8.5: |
The Sufficient Statistic in Sampling / 9: |
The Set of Distinct, Labeled Observations / 9.1: |
Estimation in Random Sampling with Replacement / 9.2: |
Estimation in Probability-Proportional-to-Size Sampling / 9.3: |
Comments on the Improved Estimates / 9.4: |
Design and Model / 10: |
Uses of Design and Model in Sampling / 10.1: |
Connections between the Design and Model Approaches / 10.2: |
Some Comments / 10.3: |
Likelihood Function in Sampling / 10.4: |
Some Useful Designs / Part III: |
Stratified Sampling / 11: |
With Any Stratified Design / 11.1: |
With Stratified Random Sampling |
The Stratification Principle / 11.2: |
Allocation in Stratified Random Sampling / 11.5: |
Poststratification / 11.6: |
Population Model for a Stratified Population / 11.7: |
Derivations for Stratified Sampling / 11.8: |
Optimum Allocation |
Poststratification Variance |
Cluster and Systematic Sampling / 11.9: |
Primary Units Selected by Simple Random Sampling / 12.1: |
Unbiased Estimator |
Primary Units Selected with Probabilities Proportional to Size / 12.2: |
Hansen-Hurwitz (PPS) Estimator |
Horvitz-Thompson Estimator |
The Basic Principle / 12.3: |
Single Systematic Sample / 12.4: |
Variance and Cost in Cluster and Systematic Sampling / 12.5: |
Multistage Designs / 12.6: |
Simple Random Sampling at Each Stage / 13.1: |
Primary Units Selected with Probability Proportional to Size / 13.2: |
Any Multistage Design with Replacement / 13.3: |
Cost and Sample Sizes / 13.4: |
Derivations for Multistage Designs / 13.5: |
Probability-Proportional-to-Size Sampling |
More Than Two Stages |
Double or Two-Phase Sampling / 14: |
Ratio Estimation with Double Sampling / 14.1: |
Allocation in Double Sampling for Ratio Estimation / 14.2: |
Double Sampling for Stratification / 14.3: |
Derivations for Double Sampling / 14.4: |
Approximate Mean and Variance: Ratio Estimation |
Optimum Allocation for Ratio Estimation |
Expected Value and Variance: Stratification |
Nonsampling Errors and Double Sampling / 14.5: |
Nonresponse, Selection Bias, or Volunteer Bias |
Double Sampling to Adjust for Nonresponse: Callbacks |
Response Modeling and Nonresponse Adjustments |
Methods For Elusive And Hard-To-Detect Populations / 14.6: |
Network Sampling and Link-Tracing Designs / 15: |
Estimation of the Population Total or Mean / 15.1: |
Multiplicity Estimator |
Stratification in Network Sampling / 15.2: |
Other Link-Tracing Designs / 15.4: |
Detectability and Sampling / 15.5: |
Constant Detectability over a Region / 16.1: |
Estimating Detectability / 16.2: |
Effect of Estimated Detectability / 16.3: |
Detectability with Simple Random Sampling / 16.4: |
Estimated Detectability and Simple Random Sampling / 16.5: |
Sampling with Replacement / 16.6: |
Derivations / 16.7: |
Unequal Probability Sampling of Groups with Unequal Detection Probabilities / 16.8: |
Line and Point Transects / 16.9: |
Density Estimation Methods for Line Transects / 17.1: |
Narrow-Strip Method / 17.2: |
Smooth-by-Eye Method / 17.3: |
Parametric Methods / 17.4: |
Nonparametric Methods / 17.5: |
Estimating f (0) by the Kernel Method |
Fourier Series Method |
Designs for Selecting Transects / 17.6: |
Random Sample of Transects / 17.7: |
Systematic Selection of Transects / 17.8: |
Selection with Probability Proportional to Length / 17.9: |
Note on Estimation of Variance for the Kernel Method / 17.10: |
Some Underlying Ideas about Line Transects / 17.11: |
Line Transects and Detectability Functions |
Single Transect |
Average Detectability |
Random Transect |
Average Detectability and Effective Area |
Effect of Estimating Detectability |
Probability Density Function of an Observed Distance |
Detectability Imperfect on the Line or Dependent on Size / 17.12: |
Estimation Using Individual Detectabilities / 17.13: |
Estimation of Individual Detectabilities |
Detectability Functions other than Line Transects / 17.14: |
Variable Circular Plots or Point Transects / 17.15: |
Exercise |
Capture-Recapture Sampling / 18: |
Single Recapture / 18.1: |
Models for Simple Capture-Recapture / 18.2: |
Sampling Design in Capture-Recapture: Ratio Variance Estimator / 18.3: |
Random Sampling with Replacement of Detectability Units |
Random Sampling without Replacement |
Estimating Detectability with Capture-Recapture Methods / 18.4: |
Multiple Releases / 18.5: |
More Elaborate Models / 18.6: |
Line-Intercept Sampling / 19: |
Random Sample of Lines: Fixed Direction / 19.1: |
Lines of Random Position and Direction / 19.2: |
Spatial Sampling / Part V: |
Spatial Prediction or Kriging / 20: |
Spatial Covariance Function / 20.1: |
Linear Prediction (Kriging) / 20.2: |
Variogram / 20.3: |
Predicting the Value over a Region / 20.4: |
Spatial Designs / 20.5: |
Design for Local Prediction / 21.1: |
Design for Prediction of Mean of Region / 21.2: |
Plot Shapes and Observational Methods / 22: |
Observations from Plots / 22.1: |
Observations from Detectability Units / 22.2: |
Comparisons of Plot Shapes and Detectability Methods / 22.3: |
Adaptive Sampling / Part VI: |
Adaptive Sampling Designs / 23: |
Adaptive and Conventional Designs and Estimators / 23.1: |
Brief Survey of Adaptive Sampling / 23.2: |
Adaptive Cluster Sampling / 24: |
Designs / 24.1: |
Initial Simple Random Sample without Replacement |
Initial Random Sample with Replacement |
Estimators / 24.2: |
Initial Sample Mean |
Estimation Using Draw-by-Draw Intersections |
Estimation Using Initial Intersection Probabilities |
When Adaptive Cluster Sampling Is Better than Simple Random Sampling / 24.3: |
Expected Sample Size, Cost, and Yield / 24.4: |
Comparative Efficiencies of Adaptive and Conventional Sampling / 24.5: |
Further Improvement of Estimators / 24.6: |
Data for Examples and Figures / 24.7: |
Systematic and Strip Adaptive Cluster Sampling / 25: |
Estimator Based on Partial Selection Probabilities / 25.1: |
Estimator Based on Partial Inclusion Probabilities |
Calculations for Adaptive Cluster Sampling Strategies / 25.3: |
Comparisons with Conventional Systematic and Cluster Sampling / 25.4: |
Example Data / 25.5: |
Stratified Adaptive Cluster Sampling / 26: |
Estimators Using Expected Numbers of Initial Intersections / 26.1: |
Estimator Using Initial Intersection Probabilities |
Comparisons with Conventional Stratified Sampling / 26.3: |
Answers to Selected Exercises / 26.4: |
References |
Author Index |
Subject Index |