Adaptive cluster sampling is a probabilistic design tailored to populations that exhibit rare or spatially clustered features, such as endangered species, epidemic cases or hidden cultural artefacts.

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In the case of studies where sample units are clusters, each unit is qualitatively classified into one of several groups according to some characteristic, and the ultimate units of observations are ...

This example illustrates the use of regression analysis in a simple random cluster sampling design. The data are from S rndal, Swenson, and Wretman (1992, p. 652). A total of 284 Swedish ...

To calculate intra-cluster and intra-household design effects and intra-class correlation coefficients for dietary nutrients obtained from a 24 h record-assisted recall. There were 125 children in 50 ...