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 ...

In a recently published news story, we learn about a young doctor, Jake Deutsch, and his personal experience with coronavirus disease 2019. Deutsch tested positive for Covid-19 and checked himself ...

Why do pollsters make such a big deal about probability sampling? You'd think that choosing people to interview should be easy. Take three of these, four of those, and two of the other. But it's not.

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...

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 ...

Many marginalized populations face severe health inequities in developed countries. These include people who are poor, homeless, sell sex or use alcohol or illegal drugs. In Toronto, an estimated 19% ...

A small company wants to audit employee travel expenses in an effort to improve the expense reporting procedure and possibly reduce expenses. The company does not have resources to examine all expense ...