STATS 348.3
"SAMPLING TECHNIQUES"

 

January-April 2005


Latest Modification: JUNE 28, 2004

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LECTURES: MWF 10:30-11:20 AM
LAB: TBA

 

PREREQUISITE:  STATS 242.3 or STATS 245.3 or STATS 246.3,

or any one of the following introductions to statistical methodology:
AG EC 361.3; COMM 104.3+207.3; ECON 204.6; G E 210.3;

PL SC 314.3; PSY 233.3+234.3; STATS 244.3+SOC 240.3;
 

 

SOME INFORMATION

Course Outline:

                     1.      Overview of Sampling Techniques

                     2.      Mathematical & Statistical Ideas

                     3.      Simple Random Sampling:  - basic concepts

                                    - estimation of means, totals, proportions, numbers and ratios

                                    - use of auxiliary data for ratio, difference and regression estimation

                     4.      Stratified Random Sampling:  - basic concepts

                                    - estimation of means, totals, proportions, numbers and ratios

                                    - use of auxiliary data for ratio, difference and regression estimation

                     5.      Single Stage Cluster Sampling

                     6.  Two Stage Cluster Sampling

                     7.      Systematic Random Sampling                    

                     8.  Unequal Probability Sampling

                     9.      Planning a Sample Survey                          

                   10.  Questionnaire Design

                   11.      Other Topics

Text:            Notes for a Course in Sample Survey Methodology (2005 Edition)

Some Reference Texts:

                     Sampling, 2nd Edition (2002)

                                  by Steven K. Thompson [Wiley Interscience]

                     Sampling:  Design and Analysis (1999)

                                    by Sharon L. Lohr [Duxbury]   

                     Elementary Survey Sampling, 5th Edition (1996)

                                    by  Scheaffer, Mendenhall, Ott  [Duxbury]

                     Sampling Techniques, 3rd Edition (1977)

                                    by  William G. Cochran  [Wiley]

                     Sampling Theory (1968)

                                    by Des Raj [McGraw Hill]

 

 

 

 SOME STATISTICAL TABLES

 Note: These tables were generated using MS EXCEL 2000

 Standard Normal Distribution

 Student's t Distributions

 Chi-Square Distributions

Tables of the F-distribution:

F(0.25) - F(0.10) - F(0.05) - F(0.025) - F(0.01) - F(0.005) - F(0.001)