Prerequisite: Permission of BSOS-Joint Program in Survey Methodology department; and must have taken at least a graduate level statistics course or an undergraduate level advanced statistics course.
Practical aspects of sample design. The course will cover the main techniques used in sampling practice: simple random sampling, stratification, systematic selection, cluster sampling, multistage sampling, and probability proportional to size sampling. The course will also cover sampling frames, cost models, and sampling error (variance) estimation techniques.