Probability theory has long provided a rigorous framework for quantifying uncertainty, yet its extension to infinite sets introduces profound conceptual challenges and opportunities. Contemporary ...

Their ambitions were always high. When Will Sawin and Melanie Matchett Wood first started working together in the summer of 2020, they set out to rethink the key components of some of the most ...

A new sampling scheme, with probability of inclusion proportional to size, is proposed for a sample of given size n. It satisfies many requirements of a good sampling scheme under conditions usually ...

Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...

THE first volume of this work, reviewed by Prof. R. A. Fisher in Nature of October 16, 1943, covered the subjects of frequency distributions and their properties ; theories of probability and sampling ...

This paper presents preliminary results of an empirical study of probability sampling designs based on the study of seven attributes of collared rimsherds from six totally or almost totally excavated ...