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Royal Statistical Society – Social Statistics Section
Meeting
Understanding Survey Design Effects: Is Cluster Sampling a False Economy?
For convenience and to save on fieldwork costs, many random samples involve an element of clustering. This session sets out to discuss how clustering of a sample can have a detrimental effect on its statistical reliability, reducing effective sample size, and how precision can be improved more effectively by increasing the number of clusters, rather than increasing the number of respondents per cluster. It will also illustrate more generally how aspects of the design of a survey could have quite profound effects on the precision of its results.
Speaker:
ANDREW ZELIN, Sampling and Statistics Director, MORI, UK
Date & Time:
14 December 2004, 5:00 PM (Tea from 4:30)
Place:
RSS, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Admission:
The meeting is open to all and free of charge
For more information please contact:
Keith Dugmore
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(Tel: 020 7834 0966)
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