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Material and Links

Publications

Materials from workshops and conferences arranged by the BNU Network have been published in Proceedings with programme, abstracts, papers and list of participants (see page "Events").

Four textbooks on survey statistics have been written by members of the Steering Committee:

24 doctoral dissertations on survey statistics have been written by participants in Network summer school and workshops:

  • Nibia Aires (2000): Techniques to calculate exact inclusion probabilities for conditional Poisson sampling and Pareto (Phi)ps sampling designs
  • Per Gösta Andersson (2001): Improving estimation quality in large sample surveys
  • Signe Balina (2002): Estimation of the accuracy in the Latvian Household Budget Survey and recommendations for improvements
  • Michael Carlson (2003): Some contributions to statistical disclosure control
  • Anders Holmberg (2003): Essays on model assisted survey planning
  • Annica Isaksson (2003): Survey models for a vehicle speed survey
  • Pauli Ollila (2004): A theoretical overview for variance estimation in sampling theory with some new techniques for complex estimators
  • Kadri Meister (2005): On methods for real time sampling and distributions in sampling
  • Boris Lorenc (2006): Two topics in survey methodology
  • Peter Lundquist (2006): Estimating interviewer effects in sample surveys: Some contributions
  • Jurgita Turkuviene (2006): Analysis of the distributions of finite population statistics
  • Oksana Honchar (2007): Methodological support for sample surveys of non-financial service small enterprises
  • Kaja Sõstra (2007): Restriction estimator for domains
  • Mikko Myrskylä (2007): Generalized regression estimation for domain class frequencies: Accuracy and variance estimation
  • Dalius Pumputis (2008): Statistical estimators of the finite population parameters in the presence of auxiliary information
  • Sara Westling (2008): Cost efficiency of nonresponse rate reduction efforts - an evaluation approach
  • Kari Nissinen (2009): Small area estimation with linear mixed models from unit-level panel and rotating panel data
  • Viktoras Chadyšas (2009) Statistical estimators of the finite population parameters in the case of sample rotation
  • Anders Lundquist (2009) Contributions to the theory of unequal probability sampling
  • Anton Grafström (2010) On unequal probability sampling designs
  • Natalja Lepik (2011): Estimation of domains under restrictions built upon generalized regression and synthetic estimators
  • Vesa Kuusela (2011): Paradigms in Statistical Inference for Finite Populations; Up to the 1950s
  • Andrius Ciginas (2012): Approximations to distributions of linear combinations of order statistics in finite populations

92 Bachelor theses and 53 Master theses on survey statistics have been written in Baltic universities 1995 - 2009. The list of students, topics and supervisors is available here.

Useful Links

Publications and Journals

Learning Resources, Software

Research Projects

  • EURAREA on Small Area Estimation (SAE)
  • AMELI on Poverty Estimation
  • SAMPLE on Small Area Estimation

http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/sample

Organizations and Networks

Datasets

Eurostat Resources

International Education in Survey Statistics