
Praise for the Second Edition "This book has never had a competitor. It is the only book that takes a broad approach to sampling . . . any good personal statistics library should include a copy of this book." "Well-written . . . an...
--Technometrics

From the reviews of the First Edition: "A well-written book that deserves to be widely used, both by statistics teachers and by researchers." -Biometrics "The explanations are clear and concise, the presentation is extremely pleasing, the references are up to date, and there...

Covers both classical and modern sampling design and estimation methods, focusing on methods for populations that are difficult to sample--elusive, rare, clustered or hard to detect. Divided into six parts, it covers basic sampling from simple random to unequal probability sampling;...