Complex Sampling Designs and Variance Estimation.

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Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: STAT 544 and 514 . The analysis of data from surveys that use multistage samples, and connections to the analysis of observational studies and experiments with missing data. Computer intensive methodologies such as the jackknife and bootstrap will be introduced and applied to the problem of variance estimation in these diverse settings.