Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 38 million people around the world and is showing no signs of going away any time soon. Researchers worldwide are frantically working on developing an effective ...

Why do pollsters make such a big deal about probability sampling? You'd think that choosing people to interview should be easy. Take three of these, four of those, and two of the other. But it's not.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In a recently published news story, we learn about a young doctor, Jake Deutsch, and his personal experience with coronavirus disease 2019. Deutsch tested positive for Covid-19 and checked himself ...

In a recently published news story, we learn about a young doctor, Jake Deutsch, and his personal experience with coronavirus disease 2019. Deutsch tested positive for Covid-19 and checked himself ...

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 ...

The problem of estimating the variance of the ratio estimator in sampling with probability proportional to aggregate size is investigated. The form of nonnegative unbiased variance estimators is found ...

A model is given for line transect sampling for the purpose of estimating animal population density which makes no assumption about the value of the detection probability along the transect or about ...