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Many data sets used by economists and other social scientists are collected by stratified sampling. The sampling scheme used to collect the data induces a probability distribution on the observed ...

where is the true probability of observing the jth response level in the ith population. The product multinomial distribution is simply the product of two or more individual multinomial distributions ...

This is the description of the sample plan for a survey of enrollments by mail questionnaire of 1800 colleges and universities in the United States. The requirements of the survey included speed, ...

The method of simple random sampling (METHOD=SRS) selects units with equal probability and without replacement. Each possible sample of n different units out of N has the same probability of being ...