1 A brief history of random sampling methods

Bellhouse, David R.

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“…At the end of 19 th century, Norwegian statistician A. N. Kiaer proposed the usage of representative sampling (Bellhouse, 1988). It was Kiaer who contributed to the general acceptance of this concept.…”

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Field Survey of Dracaena Cinnabari Populations in Firmihin, Socotra Island: Methodology and Preliminary Results

Adolt

Maděra

Abraham³

et al. 2013

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Between 2010 and 2011 a field survey dedicated to Dracaena cinnabari (DC) population was conducted in Firmihin, Socotra Island (Yemen). It’s main goal was to collect data that would make it possible to unbiasedly estimate main characteristics of the local DC population. Our motivation was to provide reliable information to support decision-making processes as well as other research activities. At the same time we were not aware of a survey which could provide this kind of statistical-sound estimates for the whole population covering an area of almost 700 ha. This article describes how the survey has been planned and carried out in practice. In addition, we also provide a set of preliminary estimates of the main DC population figures - totals and per hectare densities of stems, overall and partitioned according to predicted crown age. Among estimated parameters there are also mean crown age and proportions of predefined age classes on the total number of living DC stems. These estimates provide an explicit information on age structure of the whole DC population in Firmihin. Although we collected data on more than one hundred randomly located plots, the reported accuracy of our estimates is still rather limiting. We discuss several possibilities to obtain more accurate results or at least to approach the supposedly lower true variance that can’t be calculated by approximate techniques applied here. The design and concept of our survey makes it possible to evaluate changes over time on stem by stem bases and to generalize these stem-level details to the whole population. Mortality, regeneration and even change of population’s mean crown age can be estimated from a future repeated survey, which would be extremely useful to draw firm conclusions about the dynamic of the whole DC population in Firmihin.

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“…Although randomization of sampling was first introduced by Bowley in 1912, it was the work of Neyman (1934), which led to its general acceptance among statisticians (Bellhouse, 1988). The early principles evolved to the current theory of probability sampling (Cochran, 1977).…”

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Field Survey of Dracaena Cinnabari Populations in Firmihin, Socotra Island: Methodology and Preliminary Results

Adolt

Maděra

Abraham³

et al. 2013

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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“…In 1934, the Polish mathematician Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) presented a paper before the British Royal Statistical Society that is credited for having established probability sampling as the superior method of selection (Neyman, ). As David Bellhouse writes: “Neyman was able to provide cogent reasons, both theoretically and with practical examples, why randomization gave a much more reasonable solution than purposive selection to the problems that then confronted sampling statisticians” (, pp. 7–8).…”

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The Rhetorical Use of Random Sampling: Crafting and Communicating the Public Image of Polls as a Science (1935–1948)

Lusinchi¹

2017

J History Behavioral Science

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The scientific pollsters (Archibald Crossley, George H. Gallup, and Elmo Roper) emerged onto the American news media scene in 1935. Much of what they did in the following years (1935-1948) was to promote both the political and scientific legitimacy of their enterprise. They sought to be recognized as the sole legitimate producers of public opinion. In this essay I examine the, mostly overlooked, rhetorical work deployed by the pollsters to publicize the scientific credentials of their polling activities, and the central role the concept of sampling has had in that pursuit. First, they distanced themselves from the failed straw poll by claiming that their sampling methodology based on quotas was informed by science. Second, although in practice they did not use random sampling, they relied on it rhetorically to derive the symbolic benefits of being associated with the "laws of probability."

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“…There is, however, another important feature of Neyman's first paper on the topic of agricultural experimentation we think especially worthy of note. For a number of years, we have pursued the parallels and linkages between surveys and experiments (e.g., see Fienberg & Tanur, 1987, 1988, 1989 and, in particular, Fisher's and Neyman's roles as progenitors of ideas in both areas. Although in fact surveys and experiments had developed very long and independent traditions by the start of the 20th century, it was only with the rise of ideas associated with mathematical statistics in the 1920s that the tools for major progress in these areas became available.…”

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Reconsidering the Fundamental Contributions of Fisher and Neyman on Experimentation and Sampling

Fienberg¹,

Tanur²

1996

International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Stat

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are commonly acknowledged as the statisticians who provided the basic ideas that underpin the design of experiments and the design of sample surveys, respectively. In this paper, we reconsider the key contributions of these great men to the two areas of research. We also explain how the controversy surrounding Neyman's 1935 paper on agricultural experimentation in effect led to a split in research on experiments and on sample surveys.

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1 A brief history of random sampling methods

Cited by 46 publications

References 19 publications

Field Survey of Dracaena Cinnabari Populations in Firmihin, Socotra Island: Methodology and Preliminary Results

Field Survey of Dracaena Cinnabari Populations in Firmihin, Socotra Island: Methodology and Preliminary Results

The Rhetorical Use of Random Sampling: Crafting and Communicating the Public Image of Polls as a Science (1935–1948)

Reconsidering the Fundamental Contributions of Fisher and Neyman on Experimentation and Sampling

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