Book Review and Software Review: Sampling and Estimation from Finite Populations

Abstract

The book Sampling and Estimation from Finite Populations by Yves Tillé was published by Wiley in 2020 in the series Probability and Statistics. The book constitutes an important reference on survey sampling and estimation for a wide range of scholars, users, and practitioners, focusing on the ‘representation side’ of the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework (Groves and Lyberg, 2010). The book contains 16 chapters presenting both classical and modern approaches to survey sampling and estimation. The main focus of the book is on design-based inference; however, there is also some discussion on model-based techniques and design-based estimators that use auxiliary information in survey sampling and estimation. Importantly, it covers also issues on nonresponse, which, nowadays is a great deal in data collection studies.