Title: Sample design in business research.
Authors: Deming, W. Edwards 1900-1993
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 1960
Subjects: Sampling (Statistics)
Contents: Part I: Standards of statistical practice -- Responsibilities in planning a survey -- Some remarks on the theory of sampling -- The frame and elements of a sampling plan -- Operational definitions of expected value and of standard error -- Uncertainties not attributable to sampling -- Part II: Replicated sampling designs -- Some simple replicated designs -- A survey of business establishments with correction for nonresponse -- Examples in sampling accounts -- Evaluation of inventory of materials -- Exercise in a replicated survey -- General theory and procedure for replicated sampling of a large area -- Filed procedure for the creation of segments and for the selection of people within families -- A statistical aid to supervision -- Sampling new material -- Stratified sampling -- Part III: Some theory useful in sampling -- Evaluation of expected value and of bias in sampling procedures -- Theory of variances -- The poisson series and the square-root transformation -- Optimum number of segments per block -- Theory for the formation of strata -- Choice of zoning interval and number of subsamples.