1. Preliminaries.
1.1 Introduction
1.2 A Brief History of survey sampling
1.3 Sampling Designs and an overview of sampling
1.4 Ingredients of a survey
1.5 Probability sampling
1.6 Precision and confidence intervals
1.7 Biased estimators
1.8 The mean-squared error
1.9 Unbiased estimation
PROBLEMS
REFERENCES
2. Varying Probability Sampling.
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Obtaining Varying-probability samples
2.3 Sampling designs
2.4 Sufficiency in sampling from finite populations
2.5 Samling with varying probabilities and without replacement
PROBLEMS
REFERENCES
3. Simple Random Sampling.
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4. Estimation of the Sample Size.
5. Stratified Sampling.
6. Ratio Estimators.
7. Regression Estimators.
8. Systematic Sampling.
9. Cluster Sampling.
10. Varying Probability Sampling: Without Replacement.
11. Two-Phase and Repetitive Sampling.
12. Two Stage Sampling.
13. Non-Sampling Errors.
14. Bayesian Approach for Inference in Finite Populations.
15. The Jackknife Method.
16. The Bootstrap Method.
17. Small Area Estimators.
18. Imputation Methods.
Answers to Selected Problems
List of Cumulative References
Author Index
Subject Index