Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

A practical method of drawing sampling units with probabilities exactly proportional to size is described, in which both preliminary calculations and the addition of a large number of sizes are ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 38 million people around the world and is showing no signs of going away any time soon. Researchers worldwide are frantically working on developing an effective ...

A new sampling scheme, with probability of inclusion proportional to size, is proposed for a sample of given size n. It satisfies many requirements of a good sampling scheme under conditions usually ...

Financial distress prediction plays an important role in the decision-making process of stock and bond investors, commercial banks and commercial credit adjusters. The effectiveness of financial ...