On 17/02/13 09:18 PM, James Salsman wrote:
I've been working as a professional statistician for most of the past two decades, in applied fields where problems result in immediate failures of various algorithms. These opinion questions aren't sophisticated. People will answer when they are asked. What do you think makes sampling so difficult, in the case, for instance, of how often advocacy actions should be proposed?
Well, as a simple issue of weighting, should geographic weighting be applied based on size of a given language speaking population? e.g. Should the sample of English speaking respondents from India be relevant to the region's weight in English as a language, it's population as a portion of humanity, its estimated online population, or some other global-relative weighting?
Or how about projects: are all project populations to be the same size?
I'd be very interested in what field you are a professional statistician; my area is health sciences, particularly public health.
Amgine