SURV636

Prerequisite: SURV626 or equivalent. Recommended: Some experience with the R statistical computing software. Repeatable to 1 credit. Different applications of the methods and techniques covered in the Sampling I course. This is also an applied statistics methods course concerned almost exclusively with the design of data collection rather than data analysis. The course will concentrate on sampling applications to human populations, since this poses a number of particular problems not found in sampling of other types of units. The principles of sample selection, though, can be applied to many other types of populations.