This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Sample surveys are used to investigate occurrence and determinants of diseases in populations. Their reliability is influenced by quality of ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 44, No. 2 (1995), pp. 173-194 (22 pages) General population surveys in Britain tend to use either the electoral registers ...

Peter Kellner has written a challenging article with the straightforward title Down With Random Samples(Kellner, 2007). His opening lines are: “We all know what perfection looks like. It is a pure ...

— -- ABC News polls of the general population are conducted by telephone among a random national sample of adults age 18 and over. Sampling and data collection for most of these polls is ...

The method of systematic random sampling (METHOD=SYS) selects units at a fixed interval throughout the sampling frame or stratum after a random start. PROC SURVEYSELECT chooses the first unit randomly ...

11 to 15 November 2019, Frascati, Italy – A total of 30 participants attended the fifth Center for Development Data (C4D2) International Training Week titled “Special Topics and Recent Developments in ...

A. Lauren Crain, Health Partners Research Foundation, PO Box 1524, MS#21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1524. E-mail: [email protected]. Background: Managed care organization (MCO) member ...

Respondents aged 20 years or older who reported having been diagnosed with arthritis by a health professional as part of the 2008 CCHS a were eligible for participation in the 2009 SLCDC. [14] ...