Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys - Couverture souple

Lehtonen, R.; Pahkinen, Erkki

 
9780471939344: Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys

Synopsis

Statistics in Practice, A new series of practical books outlining the use of statistical techniques in a wide range of application areas: Human and Biological Sciences Earth and Environmental Sciences Industry, Commerce and Finance Covering both survey sampling and survey analysis, the authors aim to provide the reader with a unified coverage of the practical tools of basic and more advanced survey sampling and estimation. Contents include: Sampling design. The design effect statistic. Use of auxiliary information. Methods for handling missing data. Variance and covariance estimation. Design-based analysis of frequency tables. Multivariate methods for complex surveys. Fully worked examples and case studies taken from official statistics and real surveys on health and social sciences are used to illustrate the various methods. Additional case studies are presented covering a range of topics such as business surveys, socio-economic surveys and educational surveys. Selected commercially available software packages for complex surveys are discussed with demonstrations using data from the case studies. Intended primarily for those involved in the planning, implementation or analysis of descriptive or analytical surveys and opinion polls, the book will also be of interest to researchers and students in many disciplines. In addition, the book is well suited for use on courses in survey sampling.

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Quatrième de couverture

Large surveys are becoming increasingly available for public use, and researchers are often faced with the need to analyse complex survey data to address key scientific issues. For proper analysis it is also important to be aware of the different aspects of the design of complex surveys. Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys features intermediate and advanced statistical techniques for use in designing and analysing complex surveys. This extensively updated edition features much new material, and detailed practical exercises with links to a Web site, helping instructors and enabling use for distance learning.

  • Provides a comprehensive introduction to sampling and estimation in descriptive surveys, including design effect statistic and use of auxiliary data.
  • Includes detailed coverage of complex survey analysis, including design–based ANOVA and logistic regression with GEE estimation.
  • Contains much new material, including handling of non–sampling errors, and model–assisted estimation for domains.
  • Features detailed real–li fe case studies, such as multilevel modeling in a multinational educational survey.
  • Supported by a Web site containing software codes, real data sets, computerized exercises with solutions, and online training materials.

Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys provides a useful practical resource for researchers and practitioners working in the planning, implementation or analysis of complex surveys and opinion polls, including business, educational, health, social, and socio–economic surveys and official statistics. In addition, the book is well suited for use on intermediate and advanced courses in survey sampling.

Revue de presse

"As in the previous edition, this book is a good resource for practitioners and cross–disciplinary researchers who use data from complex survey designs." ( Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 2006)

"The first edition of the book was one of the first books in the excellent Wiley U.K. series on Statistics in Practice." (Technometrics, May 2005)

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