Investopedia

Sampling Errors in Statistics: Definition, Types, and Calculation

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Investopedia

Simple Random Sample vs. Stratified Random Sample: What’s the Difference?

Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...
Simon Fraser University

Specification of Population Totals and Sampling Rates

If your analysis should include a finite population correction (fpc), you can input either the sampling rate or the population total using the RATE= option or the TOTAL= option. You cannot specify ...
JSTOR Daily

The Effects of Inference Method, Population Sampling, and Gene Sampling on Species Tree Inferences: An Empirical Study in Slender Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps)

Systematic Biology, Vol. 64, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2013) (JANUARY 2015), pp. 66-83 (18 pages) Species tree methods are now widely used to infer the ...
Nature

Compensating for population sampling in simulations of epidemic spread on temporal contact networks

Human interactions play an important role in determining the potential transmission routes of infectious diseases and other contagion phenomena 1. Their measure and characterization represent an ...