Why do pollsters make such a big deal about probability sampling? You'd think that choosing people to interview should be easy. Take three of these, four of those, and two of the other. But it's not.

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 38 million people around the world and is showing no signs of going away any time soon. Researchers worldwide are frantically working on developing an effective ...

In a recently published news story, we learn about a young doctor, Jake Deutsch, and his personal experience with coronavirus disease 2019. Deutsch tested positive for Covid-19 and checked himself ...

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 ...

A new sampling scheme, with probability of inclusion proportional to size, is proposed for a sample of given size n. It satisfies many requirements of a good sampling scheme under conditions usually ...

Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

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, ...