A sample survey has many potential sources of error that generally have a systematic effect on the outcomes. Therefore, many large-scale field experiments are ...

Worried at the increasing incidence of nerve disorders among Calcuttans, with hardly any data to provide a research backbone, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has embarked upon a random ...

Measuring the identity of Taiwanese Americans, and Asian origin groups in the United States more generally, is a challenging endeavor, whether in survey research or when trying to generate estimates ...

Probability-based panel: This refers to a national survey panel recruited using random sampling from a database that includes most people in the population. Today, most such panels in the United ...

Targeting matters most. Surveying the wrong audience can lead to misleading data and poor decisions, even if the questions themselves are solid. Weighting shapes reality. Overrepresenting certain ...

India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (left) with scientist and statistician PC Mahalanobis Indian data is staring at a credibility crisis with official numbers on a range of subjects - from ...

In this article, a new method for producing estimates from a multiple frame survey is presented. The discussion in this article is restricted to sample designs in which a stratified simple random ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is generally thought that the sample survey was developed in the social sciences in the late 19th century. We trace its inception back to ...

Ramesh Kumar, an investigator or "data warrior" as they are better known to the fraternity, braved sub-zero temperatures in a Himalayan village to gather vital data on rural livelihoods. It is on the ...

Professor of Statistics at UNSW, President of the Statistical Society of Australia and a Deputy Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, UNSW Sydney ...