The authors advocate the use of the generalized variance of the sample means-the determinant of the variance-covariance matrix $D(\overline{y})$ of the means-as a ...

The next sample design for the customer satisfaction survey uses stratification by State. The sampling frame is also sorted by Type and Usage before sample selection, to provide additional control ...

Stratified sampling is used to select a sample that is representative of different groups. If the groups are of different sizes, the number of items selected from each group will be proportional to ...

Suppose that the sample of students described in the previous section was actually selected using stratified random sampling. In stratified sampling, the study population is divided into ...

Producers of infant formula employ comprehensive food safety systems, including product testing to ensure those systems are working. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign finds ...

"Samples of five different cold drinks — Sprite, Mountain Dew, 7UP, Pepsi and Coca Cola — were selected by the stratified sampling method and the samples were submitted to National Test House (in ...