Author Description

This book is a natural sequel to Levy's Sampling of Populations, Third Edition. It includes discussions of further techniques, recent developments, and timely issues that appear to be confronting practitioners in the real world. Numerous illustrative examples and numerical exercises are included along with use of off-the-shelf software packages such as SAS, SPSS, Stata, and SUDDAN. As with Sampling the book focuses on methods rather than on strict theory, and it discusses how the methods are used in major surveys (e.g., National Immunization Survey and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System). The use of heuristic-type demonstrations is conceptually replicated from the first book. The author team represents the finest of its kind in the field.