Statistics 480: Survey Sampling Techniques
Winter 2024
Monday, Wednesday 2:30-4 (2260 USB)
Professor: Walter R. Mebane, Jr.
Office: 7735 Haven Hall (cell 607/592-0546); email
[email protected]
Office hours: Tuesday 2:00PM-4:00PM or other times by appointment.
Lab: Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM (B844 EH)
GSI: Ashlan Simpson (
<[email protected]>)
GSI Office hours TBA.
Textbook: Scheaffer, Mendenhall, Ott, Gerow, Elementary Survey
Sampling, 7th edition. (some supplemental reading on next page)
Homework: Ungraded homework will be assigned in section by
Jan 19, Feb 2, 16, Mar 15, and graded homework will be due on
Feb 2, 16, Mar 15, Apr 29; graded homework is due at 2:30PM Friday.
For each graded homework teams will be randomly created and grades
will be assigned by team based on each team's submission. The team
memberships will be announced on Canvas no later than Jan 17 (teams for hw
1), Jan 31 (teams for hw 2), Feb 14 (teams for hw 3), Mar 13 (teams for hw 4).
Collaborative work on all the homework is encouraged, but each team must submit
answers written by that team using the team's own expressions and
presentations.
Project: There will be a final group project (teams of three), due at
noon on April 24. Each team will make a presentation of their project to the
class on either April 17 or April 22. See project.pdf. The quality
of the presentation will factor into the “project” grade.
Exams: There will be two exams, one during class time (tentatively scheduled
for April 1) and the final exam (Thursday, April 30, 4:00pm-6:00 pm). Each
exam will use an open book, open notes, open computer (but no communications,
please) format. Both exams will likely be administered in an online format
using Gradescope, to minimize the need for sharing paper, so the precise timing
of exams will be more flexible than the preceding precise specification.
Attendance:
Attendance at the class meeting of April 3 is mandatory.
Teams for the final project will be formed in class on that day (see
project.pdf). The participation grade will be based somewhat on your
activity in the class lecture sessions, more on a participation score the GSI
provides measuring your activity in the lab sections, and a bit on the
presentation on April 17 or 22 (whether you participate both in presenting and
from the audience).
| Tentative Schedule |
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| dates |
topic or event |
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| Jan 10, 17 |
introduction (chapter 2) |
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| Jan 22 |
chapter 3 |
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| Jan 24, 29 |
chapter 4 (and a bit about Horvitz-Thompson) |
|
| Jan 31, Feb 5, 7 |
chapter 5 |
|
| Feb 12, 14, 19, 21 |
chapter 6 |
|
| Mar 4, 6, 11 |
chapter 8 (and some of Chapter 7) |
|
| Mar 18, 20, 25 |
chapter 9 |
|
| Mar 27 |
chapter 7 |
|
| Apr 1 |
EXAM |
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| Apr 3 |
project work |
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| Apr 8 |
chapters 5 and 11 and real-world surveys |
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| Apr 10, 15 |
real-world surveys |
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| Apr 17, 22 |
presentations |
|
| Apr 24, noon |
final project paper due |
|
| April 30, 4:00pm-6:00 pm |
final exam |
|
| Course Grades |
|
| assignment |
weight |
|
| homework |
25% |
|
| exam |
20% |
|
| project |
25% |
|
| final exam |
25% |
|
| participation |
5% |
|
Supplemental reading: other items will be listed on slides and other
handouts
- Thomas Lumley. 2010. Complex Surveys: A Guide to Analysis
Using R. Wiley. Pages 2-10, 17-23, 39-45 (in file
TL_2-45.pdf).
- Carl-Erik Särndal, Bengt Swensson and Jan Wretman. 1992.
Model Assisted Survey Sampling. Springer-Verlag. Pages 36-57,
162-166, 172-181, 219-239, 556-563, 573-577 (in files
SSW_36-57.pdf, SSW_162-239.pdf and
SSW_556-577.pdf).
- R. R. Sitter. 1992. Comparing three bootstrap methods for survey
data. Canadian Journal of Statistics 20(2): 135-154. In file
Sitter-ComparingThreeBootstrap-1992.pdf.
