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Sampling methods are integral to the design of surveys and experiments, to the validity of results, and thus to the study of statistics, social science, and a variety other disciplines that use statistical data. Yet most of the available texts on the subject are either quite advanced and theoretical or too applied, descriptive, and lacking statistical results.
Sampling Methodologies with Applications offers a balanced, practical treatment of the techniques and applications of the commonly used procedures for sampling from finite populations. It keeps mathematics to a minimum, but does not avoid them entirely: it features the principle results within the text but provides their derivations in the Appendices to each chapter. In an easily followed, step-by-step presentation, the author motivates each topic with illustrations followed by examples and exercises. All of these are constructed from everyday, practical situations covering a wide variety of topics, from scholastic aptitude tests to healthcare expenditures and presidential elections.
Why wade through advanced, theoretical tomes when what you need is straightforward, practical information? Why risk missing important statistical results often omitted from more basic texts? Sampling Methodologies with Applications has everything you need, presented clearly and logically for quick access to topics central to actual practice.
Sampling methods are integral to the design of surveys and
experiments, to the validity of results, and thus to the study of
statistics, social science, and a variety other disciplines that
use statistical data. Yet most of the available texts on the
subject are either quite advanced and theoretical or too applied,
descriptive, and lacking statistical results. Sampling
Methodologies with Applications offers a balanced, practical
treatment of the techniques and applications of the commonly used
procedures for sampling from finite populations. It keeps
mathematics to a minimum, but does not avoid them entirely: it
features the principle results within the text but provides their
derivations in the Appendices to each chapter. In an easily
followed, step-by-step presentation, the author motivates each
topic with illustrations followed by examples and exercises. All of
these are constructed from everyday, practical situations covering
a wide variety of topics, from scholastic aptitude tests to
healthcare expenditures and presidential elections. Why wade
through advanced, theoretical tomes when what you need is
straightforward, practical information? Why risk missing important
statistical results often omitted from more basic texts? Sampling
Methodologies with Applications has everything you need, presented
clearly and logically for quick access to topics central to actual
practice.
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1988
International Conference on Services Marketing presented by the
Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) and the Marketing Department of
Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. It provides a
variety of quality research in the field of Services Marketing and
includes papers on various topics including travel and tourism,
international services, industrial services and health care
services. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an
international organization dedicated to promoting timely
explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in
theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and
the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses
and symposia that attract delegates from around the world.
Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings
series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting
the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research
and insights, complimenting the Academy's flagship journals, the
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review.
Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a
wide range of subject areas in marketing science.
Biotechnology along with the other core technology viz. Information
Technology, is at the heart of technology revolution in Asia. Asian
countries have adopted strategies for harnessing the potential of
biotechnology for their industrial Development. The areas of
applications both in pharmaceutical and agriculture sector have
widened, finding new vistas of economic growth. Policy challenges,
however, are arising among others, concerning trade in GMOs, impact
of genetic engineering on environment and human health, biosafety
management, and ethical aspects that are yet to be addressed at any
collective forum in Asia. One of the missing links is a dialogue
between natural and social scientists so as to identify
socio-economic requirements and policy priorities in the realm of
biotechnology and development in the region. This book brings
together perceptions on some of these issues by eminent experts
from the Asian region. As a sequel to the pioneering
""Biotechnology Revolution and the Third World: Challenges and
Policy Options"" (RIS 1988), this volume draws lessons from the
experiences of Asian developing countries and revisits some of the
concerns raised earlier.
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