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Statistics 5201
Sampling Methodology in Finite Populations
Spring 08

Instructor: Glen Meeden
office: 313 Ford Hall
office hours: 2:30-3:20 MThF or by appointment
phone: 612-625-8321
e-mail: glen@stat.umn.edu

Teaching Assistant: Zhihua Su
office hours: 4:00-5:00 T and 4:40-5:40 Th in 352 Ford Hall
phone: 612-626-1838
e-mail: suzhihua@stat.umn.edu
office: 472 Ford Hall

Lecture: 10:10-11:00 MWF
Classroom: 158 Amundson Hall

Text: Sampling: Design and Analysis by Sharon Lohr and published by Duxbury Press in 1999

Here is a link to Rweb

The final exam is a take home exam and will be given out at the end of class on Friday, May 9. If you cannot come to class you can pick it up at the Statistics office in 313 Ford any time after that during our usual office hours. It will be due back to the office by 4:00 pm on Friday, May 16.

Syllabus

Announcements

Additional information about R and Rweb can be found at More on Rweb

Some course handouts

• Introduction to Rweb
• Simple random sampling
• Estimating a population mean
• Entering populations into R
• Calculating the ratio estimator for a population total
• Calculating the regression estimator for a population total
• Working with stratified random samples
• Working with cluster samples
• Studying the Horvitz-Thompson Estimator
• Table lookup in Rweb
• Some least squares theory
• Notes for calibration lecture
• variance estimation of a systematic sample
• variance estimation for the ratio estimator

Homework Solutions

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4 and some more Assignment 4+
• Assignment 5
• Assignment 6

Solution to exams

• Exam 1