We give a brief overview of common sampling designs used in a survey setting, and introduce the principal inferential paradigms under which data from complex surveys may be analyzed. In particular, we ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Let’s imagine that we are studying a species of beetle. The beetles come in many different colors, and we want to know how common the orange (O) coloring is in this population. This population of ...

Revue de l'Institut International de Statistique / Review of the International Statistical Institute, Vol. 35, No. 3 (1967), pp. 247-263 (17 pages) This paper deals with the study of k characters of a ...

The adaptive potential of a population defines its importance for species survival in changing environmental conditions such as global climate change. Very few empirical studies have examined adaptive ...