Sampling  – Syllabus

  1. An Overview of Sampling

ü      Various sampling techniques SRS, cluster, stratified, Gallup’s MSCS

ü      Quota sampling and Biases (Response, Selection, Non-Response, Household biases)

ü      Famous Surveys with Faulty results

  1. Simple Random Sampling

ü      Estimation of Means and Totals

ü      Normal Distribution and Confidence Intervals

ü      Proportions and Percentages without and with replacement  - Hypergeometric and Binomial Distributions

ü      Several classes in several subpopulations

ü      Comparing domain proportions and the chi-squared test

ü      Determination of sample sizes

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

  1. Stratified Sampling

Exercise 3

  1. Cluster Sampling

Exercise 4

  1. Ratio Estimators and Cluster Sampling with unequal cluster sizes

Exercise 5