With a population of over 40 million users worldwide, a number doubling every year, the internet has become a medium with distinct business opportunities. To academic and commercial researchers, the ...

Social and economic scientists are tempted to use emerging data sources like big data to compile information about finite populations as an alternative for traditional survey samples. These data ...

Although selecting a probability sample has been the standard for decades when making inferences from a sample to a finite population, incentives are increasing to use nonprobability samples. In a ...

Our third Methods 101 video explores some of the ways that nonprobability surveys differ from traditional probability-based polls. How do pollsters conduct surveys online and what does that mean for ...

The 8th ESRA (European Survey Research Association) Conference was held in Croatia in July 2019, which staged 220 sessions on survey research. Among them, this article focuses on the latest cases of ...

By Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Scott Keeter, Nick Hatley, Kyley McGeeney and Alejandra Gimenez As the costs and nonresponse rates of traditional, probability-based surveys seem to grow each year, ...

It is believed that new types of computing machines will be constructed to exploit quantum mechanics for an exponential speed advantage in solving certain problems compared with classical computers 9.

Introduction / William L Thompson -- PART ONE: OVERVIEW AND BASIC CONCEPTS -- Sampling rare populations / Lyman L. McDonald -- Separating components of detection probability in abundance estimation: ...