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The theory of acceptance sampling by variables based on non-normal populations has been recently developed in various directions, as seen in an interesting survey by Owen [9]. In the present paper we ...

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Pew Research Center designed this study to assess the current state of online survey sampling methods – both probability-based and opt-in – and determine their accuracy on general population estimates ...

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