Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

For the estimation of the population total of a character y, defined over a finite population of known size, "optimum" sampling strategies for the case when auxiliary information H of a type commonly ...

The 8th ESRA (European Survey Research Association) Conference was held in Croatia in July 2019, which staged 220 sessions on survey research. Among them, this article focuses on the latest cases of ...

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By Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Scott Keeter, Nick Hatley, Kyley McGeeney and Alejandra Gimenez As the costs and nonresponse rates of traditional, probability-based surveys seem to grow each year, ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 70, No. 1 (May 2008), pp. 133-155 (23 pages) For mixture models with unknown number of components, Bayesian approaches, as considered ...

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