" The level is appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level statistics major.
Sampling: Design and Analysis (SDA) will also benefit a non-statistics major with a desire to …

Spatially distributed data exhibit particular characteristics that should be considered when
designing a survey of spatial units. Unfortunately, traditional sampling designs generally do …

Baryonic feedback effects consist of a major systematic for upcoming weak-lensing and
galaxy-clustering surveys. In this paper, we present an emulator for the baryonic …

Due to recent theoretical findings and advances in statistical computing, there has been a
rapid development of techniques and applications in the area of missing data analysis …

We show that occupancy models are more difficult to fit than is generally appreciated
because the estimating equations often have multiple solutions, including boundary …

There is growing interest in a data integration approach to survey sampling, particularly
where population registers are linked for sampling and subsequent analysis. The reason for …

In this chapter maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the parameters in growth curve
models are discussed. Also expectations and variancecovariance matrices of the estimates …

The increasing availability of large administrative databases for research has led to a
dramatic rise in the use of data linkage. The speed and accuracy of linkage have much …

Although agriculture represents an increasingly marginal role in the world economy in terms
of percentage of Gross Domestic Product, the radical economic and social transformations …

Credit risk measurement remains a critical field of top priority in banking finance, directly
implicated in the recent global financial crisis. This paper examines the dynamic linkages …