SURV626

Prerequisite: Permission of BSOS-Joint Program in Survey Methodology department; and must have completed an introductory graduate level statistics course covering material through OLS and logistic regression. Practical aspects of sample design. The course will cover the main techniques used in sampling practice: simple random sampling, stratification, systematic selection, cluster sampling, multistage sampling, and probability proportional to size sampling. The course will also cover sampling frames, cost models, and sampling error (variance) estimation techniques.