For decades the gold standard for public opinion surveys has been the probability poll, where a sample of randomly selected adults is polled and results are used to measure public opinion across an ...
One possible explanation for the variability in estimates across the different nonprobability samples is the range of methods that online sample vendors employ. They differ on recruitment, weighting ...
After my post the other day on tracking public opinion with biased polls, someone pointed me to this 2011 article by David Yeager, Jon Krosnick, LinChiat Chang, Harold Javitz, Matthew Levendusky, ...
"It should never have appeared in the press," blared an article from The Guardian's Lois Beckett last week—seeming to refer to the findings of a recent Brookings Institution survey of college students ...
Non-probability samples provide a challenging source of information for official statistics, because the data generating mechanism is unknown. Making inference from such samples therefore requires a ...
Statistical estimation in survey sampling encompasses a range of methods designed to infer population parameters from observed data in a manner that is both unbiased and efficient. Traditional ...