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Informationen zum Autor ROBERT M. GROVES, PhD, is presently Program Director (Senior Research Scientist) in the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Director in the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. He also holds a joint appointment as Research Professor at the University of Maryland. Klappentext The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists."Survey Errors and Survey Costs is a well-written, well-presented, and highly readable text that should be on every error-conscious statistician's bookshelf. Any courses that cover the theory and design of surveys should certainly have Survey Errors and Survey Costs on their reading lists."-Phil EdwardsMEL, Aston University Science Park, UKReview in The Statistician, Vol. 40, No. 3, 1991"This volume is an extremely valuable contribution to survey methodology. It has many virtues: First, it provides a framework in which survey errors can be segregated by sources. Second, Groves has skillfully synthesized existing knowledge, bringing together in an easily accessible form empirical knowledge from a variety of sources. Third, he has managed to integrate into a common framework the contributions of several disciplines. For example, the work of psychometricians and cognitive psychologists is made relevant to the research of econometricians as well as the field experience of sociologists. Finally, but not least, Groves has managed to present all this in a style that is accessible to a wide variety of readers ranging from survey specialists to policymakers."-Peter H. RossiUniversity of Massachusetts at AmherstReview in Journal of Official Statistics, January 1991 Zusammenfassung Presents a comprehensive treatment of survey errors and the costs and benefits of alternative survey designs! integrating statistical and social science perspectives on survey design. Considers coverage error! nonresponse error! sampling error! and measurement error! including the effects of interviewers and respondents! the wording of the questionnaire! and mode of data collection. A review of the social science and statistical literatures on survey errors is included! and the relationships between the different types of errors are explored. Presents cost models designed to reduce the various types of errors. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. An Introduction to Survey Errors. 1.1 Diverse Perspectives on Survey Research. 1.2 The Themes of Integration: Errors and Costs. 1.3 The Languages of Error. 1.4 Classifications of Error Within Survey Statistics. 1.5 Terminology of Errors in Psychological Measurement. 1.6 The Language of Errors in Econometrics. 1.7 Debates About Inferential Errors. 1.8 Important features of language Differences. 1.9 Summary: The Tyranny of the Measurable. 1.10 Summary and Plan of This Book. 2. An Introduction to Survey Costs. 2.1 Rationale for a Joint Concern About Costs and Errors. 2.2 Use of Cost and Error Models in Sample Design. 2.3 Criticisms of Cost-Error Modeling to Guide Survey Decisions. 2.4 Nonlinear Cost Models Often Apply to Practical Survey Administration. 2.5 Survey Cost Models are Inherently Discontinuous. 2.6 Cost Models Often Have Stochastic Features. 2.7 Domains of Applicability of Cost Models Must Be Specified. 2.8 Simulation Studies Might Be Best Suited to Design Decisions. 2.9 Is Time Money? 2.10 Summary: Cost Models and Survey Errors. 3. Costs and Errors of Covering the Population. ...
