Theory and Methods of Survey Sampling - Softcover

Mukhopadhyay, Parimal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8120311248 ISBN 13: 9788120311244

Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive exposition of survey sampling useful both to the students of statistics for the course on sample survey and to the survey statisticians and practitioners involved in consultancy services, marketing, opinion polls, and so on. The text offers updated review of difficult classical techniques of survey sampling, besides covering prediction-theoretic approach of survey sampling and nonsampling errors. Two new chapters - Nonparametric Methods of Variance Estimation (Chapter 19) and Analysis of Complex Surveys (Chapter 20) - have been added. These would greatly benefit the readers. It covers concepts of unequal probability sampling. It provides problems of making inference from finite population using tools of classical inference. It describes nonsampling errors including Randomised Response Techniques. It gives over 70 worked-out examples and more than 120 problems and solutions. It supplies live data from India and Sweden - in examples and exercises.

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About the Author

PARIMAL MUKHOPADHYAY, former Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (ISI), has been a distinguished teacher for many years. Besides being a senior faculty at ISI, he has taught at the University of Ife, Nigeria; Moi University, Kenya; Stockholm University, Sweden; University of South Pacific, Fiji; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; University of Qatar, and University of South Africa. He has visited several universities such as University of Montreal, Carleton University, University of Western Ontario, University of Waterloo, University of Windsor, Canada; University of Western Australia, and Middle East Technical University, Turkey as a research scientist. Professor Mukhopadhyay has to his credit more than seventy papers on Survey Sampling and Estimating Functions (some co-authored) and ten books on Statistics. His name has been selected for biographical inclusion in the 26th Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2009. He has led a number of statistical projects and has been associated with a number of statistical projects of the Government of India.

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive exposition od survey sampling useful to both the students of statistics, for the course in sample survey and practitioners involved in consultancy services.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8120311248
• ISBN 13: 9788120311244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496