Every few months, Indian media headlines loudly proclaim that “Modi is the world’s most popular leader,” citing approval ratings from an American firm called Morning Consult. The moment such surveys ...

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of sickle cell trait, sickle cell disease, beta-thalassaemia minor and ...

Abstract: With the preferable efficiency in storage and computation, hashing has shown potential application in large-scale multimedia retrieval. Compared with traditional hashing algorithms using ...

Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

Online data has the potential to transform how researchers and companies produce election forecasts. Social media surveys, online panels, and even comments scraped from the internet can offer valuable ...

This technical note covers household surveys with a focus on probability sampling, bias, and survey weights. It explains how households are selected in a representative way from a population for a ...

The WeightedRandomItemSampler class implements a random sampler where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, with replacement allowed between samples. In other words, an ...