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When an experiment is reproduced we almost never obtain exactly the same results. Instead, repeated measurements span a range of values because of biological variability and precision limits of ...

Consider the example in the section "Stratified Sampling". The study population is a junior high school with a total of 4,000 students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Researchers want to know how much these ...

Bounds are presented for the maximal deviation in finite populations between sample and population means in units of (a) the population mean deviation, (b) the population range, and (c) the population ...

Using auxilary information, you can construct the regression estimators to provide more accurate estimates of the population characteristics that are of interest. With ESTIMATE statements in PROC ...

In many situations there is interest in parameters (e.g., mean) associated with the response distribution of individual clusters in a finite clustered population. We develop predictors of such ...