The following PROC SURVEYSELECT statements select a probability sample of customers from the Customers data set using simple random sampling. title1 'Customer Satisfaction Survey'; proc surveyselect ...

This paper gives alternative derivations for the standard variance formulas in two-stage sampling. The derivations are based on a direct use of the statistical properties of the sampling errors in the ...

The results obtained by the authors so far on controlled sampling with equal probabilities and without replacement have been consolidated in this paper in an integrated fashion. Utilizing these ...

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In a simple random sample, each individual in the population has an equal probability of being chosen. Additionally, each sample of size n has an equal probability of being the chosen sample. This ...

As an estimator of the population mean, the sample mean based only on the distinct units possesses a remarkable invariance property. Under three forms of simple random sampling, viz. simple random ...