Empirical investigation of the use of ranks in (pi)ps sampling. Foreign trip report, September 6, 1987-September 16, 1987.

摘要

The traveler attended the conference, the 46th Session of the International Statistical Institute, and presented the technical paper ''An Empirical Investigation of the Use of Ranks in (pi)ps Sampling.'' Many papers of particular interest to ORNL research and applied statisticians were presented on various topics including principles and strategies of data analysis, survey sampling, multivariate analysis, stochastic models in biomedicine, time series, statistical computing, nonparametrics, environmental risk assessment, artificial intelligence and expert systems in statistics, and official statistics. Session topics of particular interest to the traveler included variance estimation with complex samples, missing data, small area statistics, and sampling methods.