Levy, P.S.|Lemeshow, S. <br/><br/>
Sampling of populations: methods and applications 

 - 3rd ed. 
 - New York  Wiley-Interscience  1999 
 - xxxi, 525p. 
 - Wiley series in probability and statistics .
<br/><br/> Discusses the reasons why sample surveys are used and some of the costs and benefits of different designs. Introduces the basic concepts of population, sample, sampling distribution and also some of the characteristics of population parameter estimates. Presents simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratified random sampling and cluster sampling. Also present accessible treatments of ratio estimation, variance estimation, including nonresponse and missing data. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-471-15575-6 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Population|Sample Size
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB 849.49 .L48 1999