This example illustrates the use of regression analysis in a simple random cluster sampling design. The data are from S rndal, Swenson, and Wretman (1992, p. 652). A total of 284 Swedish ...

The iris data published by Fisher (1936) have been widely used for examples in discriminant analysis and cluster analysis. The sepal length, sepal width, petal length, and petal width are measured in ...

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Strip adaptive cluster sampling is extended to situations where the primary units have unequal numbers of secondary units. Primary units are selected with replacement and with probabilities ...

In adaptive cluster sampling designs, an initial probability sample is selected and, whenever the observed value of the variable of interest satisfies a given condition, units in the neighborhood of ...

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