After my post the other day on tracking public opinion with biased polls, someone pointed me to this 2011 article by David Yeager, Jon Krosnick, LinChiat Chang, Harold Javitz, Matthew Levendusky, ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. As part of the Minnesota Children's Pesticide Exposure Study (MNCPES), we measured VOC concentrations in a population of households with ...

Non-probability samples provide a challenging source of information for official statistics, because the data generating mechanism is unknown. Making inference from such samples therefore requires a ...

1. Distinguish between probability and non-probability sampling and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. If you can not specify the probability that any given individual will be in the ...

Sampling populations, calculating weighted estimates, and accounting for errors, outliers, and uncertainty are important steps in our work to produce recreational catch statistics. There are two broad ...