In some applications it is cost efficient to sample data in two or more stages. In the first stage a simple random sample is drawn and then stratified according to some easily measured attribute. In ...

The SURVEYSELECT procedure provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. The procedure can select a simple random sample or a sample according to a complex multistage ...

This article reviews literature on confidence intervals for p, assuming (Bernoulli) single, double, and multistage sampling. Methods used to produce approximate single-sampling confidence intervals ...

Survey sampling is the process of selecting a probability-based sample from a finite population according to a sample design. You then collect data from these selected units and use them to estimate ...