Sampling
Strategies

Survey Design and Parameter Estimation

Author

Andrés Gutiérrez

Published

July 22, 2026

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How to cite this book

Gutiérrez, A. (2027). Sampling strategies: Survey design and parameter estimation. Unpublished version online.

This is the online version of Sampling Strategies: Survey Design and Parameter Estimation. The book provides a rigorous and applied introduction to inference for finite populations: it develops the main probability sampling designs, their estimators, and the use of auxiliary information, and introduces contemporary methods such as calibration, balanced sampling, indirect sampling, and multipurpose surveys, with examples and computational applications in R.