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Author:   Paul S. Levy (RTI International, USA) ,  Stanley Lemeshow (Ohio State University School of Public Health, OH)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   1.043kg
ISBN:  

9780470040072

ISBN 10:   0470040076
Pages:   614
Publication Date:   22 August 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Tables. Boxes. Figures. Getting Files from the Wiley ftp and Internet Sites. List of Data Sites Provides on Web Site. Preface to the Fourth Edition. Part 1: Basic Concepts.  1. Use of Sample Surveys. 2. The Population and the Sample. Part 2: Major Sampling Designs and Estimation Procedures. 3. Simple Random Sampling. 4. Systematic Sampling. 5. Stratification and Stratified Random Sampling. 6. Stratified Random Sampling: Further Issues. 7. Ratio Estimation. 8. Cluster Sampling: Introduction and Overview. 9. Simple One-Stage Cluster Sampling. 10. Two-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters Sampled with Equal Probability. 11. Cluster Sampling in Which Clusters Are Sampled with Unequal Probability: Probability Proportional to Size Sampling. 12. Variance Estimation in Complex Sample Surveys. Part 3: Selected Topics in Sample Survey Methodology. 13. Nonresponse and Missing Data in Sample Surveys. 14. Selected Topics in Sample Design and Estimation Methodology. 15. Telephone Survey Sampling (Michael W. Link and Mansour Fahimi). 16. Constructing the Survey Weights (Paul P. Biemer and Sharon L. Christ). 17. Strategies for Design-Based Analysis of Sample Survey Data. Appendix. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

Reviews

The book remains a very appropriately written text for classroom use, especially for students studying public health or epidemiology, or for undergraduate majors in statistics and related fields. (Biometrics, June 2009)

“The book remains a very appropriately written text for classroom use, especially for students studying public health or epidemiology, or for undergraduate majors in statistics and related fields.” (Biometrics, June 2009)

Author Information

Paul S. Levy is Senior Research Fellow at RTI International and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois. A Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the American College of Epidemiology, Dr. Levy has authored or coauthored over 225 articles in his areas of research interest, which include sample survey methodology, design of epidemiological studies, and methodology relevant to analysis of data from observational studies. Stanley Lemeshow, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics and Dean of the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University. He has over thirty-five years of academic experience in the areas of regression, categorical data methods, and sampling methods. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Lemeshow is the coauthor of Applied Survival Analysis, Second Edition and Applied Logistic Regression, Second Edition, both published by Wiley.

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