TY - BOOK AU - Chaudhuri,Arijit AU - Pal,Sanghamitra TI - A Comprehensive textbook on sample surveys/ T2 - Indian Statistical Institute Series SN - 9789811914171 U1 - 000SA.08 KW - Statistics KW - Sample Survey KW - Sampling N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Meaning and purpose of survey sampling -- Inference in survey sampling -- Sampling with varying probabilities -- Fixing size of an equal probability sample -- Adjusting uni-nonresponse by weighting and tackling item-nonresponse by imputation -- Randomized response and indirect survey techniques -- Super-population modeling. model assisted approach asymptotics -- Prediction approach: robustness, bayesian methods, emperical bayes -- Small area estimation and developing small domain statistics -- Estimation of non-linear parametric functions -- Permanent random numbers, poisson sampling and collocated sampling -- network and adaptive sampling -- Fixing size of a sample in complex strategies -- Inadequate and multiple frame data and conditional inference -- Study of analytical surveys ER -