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Survey Sampling

By Leslie Kish
Series: Wiley Classics Library
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Survey Sampling by Leslie Kish offers an accessible guide to the principles and practices of sampling, focusing on human population surveys. The book details how to design and execute valid sample selections, avoid biases, and critically evaluate sample outcomes. It combines the science of sampling with practical techniques and insider tips often gained only through experience.
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Ideal for students, researchers, and professionals in social sciences and statistics seeking to improve their skills in survey design and sample analysis.

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This accessible introduction to sampling methods features many illustrations from surveys of human populations. The sampling methods described may also be used to survey animals, plants, minerals, physical products, accounts and inventories.

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An accessible book on sampling techniques with emphasis on and illustrations from surveys of human populations. Explains how to design and execute valid samples of moderate dimensions and difficulty, avoid selection biases and how to become more adept at evaluating sample results, judge their validity and limits of inference, applicability and precision.

Survey Sampling contains numerous practical procedures, the domestic arts of sampling along with its science plus invaluable tricks that are usually learned only in apprenticeship.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780471109495

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 March 1995

Country: United States

Imprint: Wiley-Interscience

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 43.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 930g

Pages: 664

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About the Author

Leslie Kish, PhD, was a Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He was President of the American Statistical Association in 1977 and was a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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