Summary:
The main goal of this three hours seminar is to give participants an overview of the design-based school or randomization school in survey sampling. The seminar will cover the following topics: probability sample, Horvitz-Thompson estimator, sampling weights, probability proportional to size sample, simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratified random sampling, design effect, cluster sampling, intra-cluster correlation, generalized regression estimator, variance estimation under complex surveys, and an introduction to analysis of survey data.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this three hours seminar consists of any analysts from social, natural, and health sciences, etc., who need to make inferences (descriptive or analytic) from complex survey data.
*De especial interés para los alumnos/as del máster interuniversitario de Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento y de la Salud y aquellos investigadores que recojan información mediante encuestas
Biography:
Abdulhakeem Eideh is an Associate Professor of Survey Methodology Al-Quds University, Palestine. He received his PhD in analysis of complex survey data from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in 2002, an MSc degree in mathematical statistics in 1987 and BSc in statistics in 1984 from Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan. He is a member of the ISI, IASS, IAOS, and elected council member of the Union of Arab Statistician (2011-2015). In the last 17 years, he served as consultant for the Office of National Statistics, located in London (2001-2002), trainer for people working in official statistics in the Mediterranean countries, through Medstat II and III (Eurostat) (2007-2012), an expert in sampling and survey methodology for UNESCWA (2015), and as regional sampling consultant to MENA countries for UNICEF - MICS6 (2016-2017). Mr. Eideh has 32 years of experience in teaching university statistics and mathematics courses in Palestinian Universities. In the year 2015 Eideh received the best paper (from the papers published during 2012 and 2013) prize in the field of sampling awarded by the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, New Delhi. Eideh’s main research are analytic and descriptive inference form complex sample surveys under informative sampling, with applications to cross sectional, time series, longitudinal survey data, nonignorable nonresponse, multilevel models, and small area estimation. He published 17 articles in an international statistical journals.