Sampling in Biostatics

Sampling Entries from Section 16 of EoB: Call-backs and mail-backs in sample surveys; Cluster sampling; Optimal Allocation; Composite estimators; Design effects; Double sampling; Finite population correction; Horvitz-Thompson estimator; Interpenetrating samples; Multistage sampling; National Center for Health Statistics; Nonresponse; Nonsampling errors; Poststratification in Survey sampling; Probability sampling; Quota, representative, and other methods of purposive sampling; Ratio and Regression estimates; Response effects in sample surveys; Sample Surveys; Sampling frames; Sampling in developing countries; Sampling with and without replacement; Sampling with probability proportionate to size; Simple random sampling; Snowball sampling; Stratified sampling; Stratified sampling; Allocation in; Systematic sampling methods; Adaptive sampling; Distance sampling; Linearization methods of variance estimation; Missing data; Missing data estimation, "hot deck" and "cold deck"; Multiple imputation methods; Network sampling; Randomized response techniques; Resampling procedures for sample surveys; Small area estimation; Software for Sample Survey Data; Misuse of standard packages; Superpopulation models in survey sampling; Telephone sampling; Entries from Other Sections: Capture-Recapture; Censuses; Data Quality in Vital and Health Statistics; Density Sampling; Diggle-Kenward Model for Dropouts; Interviewing Techniques; Missing Data in Epidemiological Studies; Questionnaire Design; Random Digit Dialing for Case-Control Studies; Surveys, Health and Morbidity; Computer-Assisted Interviewing; Entries to be commissioned: Double Sampling-Applications to Biostatistics; Cognitive Processes, Reweighting Methods for Estimation of Missing Values (all suggested by either the Series Editors or reviewers)