In the usual Bayesian approach to survey sampling the sampling design, plays a minimal role, at best. Although a close relationship between exchangeable prior distributions and simple random sampling has been noted; how to formally integrate simple random sampling into the Bayesian paradigm is not clear. Recently it has been argued that the sampling design can be thought of as part of a Bayesia...

The precision of parameters estimation are determined by the sample size and the sampling design used in a study. Due to such practical constraints as the budget and manpower, most large-scale educational studies would not adopt the simple random sampling design. TIMSS 2007 used a two-stage stratified cluster sampling design. In the first stage, about 150 schools were selected according to some...

This paper deals with the robust control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) subject to communication constraints. The aim is the design of a gain-scheduled varying sampling controller using non periodic measurements from ultrasonic sensors. The contribution of this work lies in a new model formulation of varying sampling discrete-time systems using the Linear Fractional Transformation (L...

In the design of an active matrix LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), the ratio of the pixel voltage to the video voltage (RPV) of a pixel is an important factor of the performance of the LCD, since the pixel voltage of each pixel determines its transmitted luminance. Thus, of practical importance is the issue of how to maintain the admissible allowance of RPV of each pixel within a prescribed narrow...

Two fundamentally different sources o f randomness exist on which design and inference in spatial sampling can be based: (a) variation that wouM occur on resampling the same spatial population with other sampling configurations generated by the same design, and (b) variation occurring on sampling other populations, hypothetically generated by the same spatial model, using the same sampling conf...

Sequential sampling strategies have been developed for managing complexity when using computationally expensive computer simulations in engineering design. However, much of the literature has focused on objective-oriented sequential sampling methods for deterministic optimization. These methods cannot be directly applied to robust design which must account for uncontrollable variations in certa...

Before being used in scientific investigations and policy described. The objective of this article is to elucidate these fundamental structures. We describe the three basic comdecisions, thematic maps constructed from remotely sensed data should be subjected to a statistically rigorous accuponents of an accuracy assessment, the sampling design, the response design, and the estimation and analys...