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Sampling is a statistical technique used in research to select a subset of individuals or data points from a larger population. This subset, known as a sample, is chosen to represent the ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how a company can accurately measure consumer behavior without knowing what every single person is doing? If so, you’re not alone. In fact, we see questions about this ...

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 mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

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 ...

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