Model Assisted Survey Sampling (Springer Series in Statistics)

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Now available in paperback. This book provides a comprehensive account of survey sampling theory and methodology which will be suitable for students and researchers across a variety of disciplines. A central theme is to show how statistical modeling is a vital component of the sampling process and in the choice of estimation technique. Statistical modeling has strongly influenced sampling theory in recent years and has clarified many issues related to the uses of auxiliary information in surveys. This is the first textbook that systematically extends traditional sampling theory with the aid of a modern model assisted outlook. The central ideas of sampling theory are developed from the unifying perspective of unequal probability sampling. The book covers classical topics as well as areas where significant new developments have taken place notably domain estimation, variance estimation, methods for handling nonresponse, models for measurement error, and the analysis of survey data. The authors have taken care to presuppose nothing more on the part of the reader than a first course in statistical inference and regression analysis. Throughout, the emphasis is on statistical ideas rather than advanced mathematics. Each chapter concludes with a range of exercises incorporating the analysis of data from actual finite populations. As a result, all those concerned with survey methodology or engaged in survey sampling will find this an invaluable and up-to-date coverage of the subject.

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Sample IT !!!.......2006-11-05

Ok, this book is for readers who know already something about Sampling Theory. It gathers everything about the subject. When I bought it my intention was to get something about Sequential Schemes and it has a good hold of it. Although Särndal's(et al.) particular way of writing be quite different than the others, it is an excelent rich reference for Samplers and Non-Samplers.

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O livro sem dúvida é o melhor no mercado sobre Amostragem. Muito mais completo que seus antecessores. Deve-se salientar que o livro é escrito por Suecos que já vêm revolucionando a amostragem há bastante tempo, principalmente o primeiro autor do livro. É sem dúvida um importante livro para quem deseja estudar a fundo Amostragem.

control for the probabilities of inclusion!.......2003-08-28

This book has certainly changed my life, and probably will eventually turn the entire empirical economics priesthood on its head! This idea - that the way the sample was created is just as, if not MORE, important as how the estimate was created - is so obvious it's revolutionary! It means survey researchers have to pay close attention to inclusion probabilities from now on. I have to say I already consider the work a classic.

If taken as a course with a good instructor, the book is approachable and very applied. I recommend it to anyone interested in doing economic, political, social, market, environmental, or population research. (Don't be afraid of the math - it's just the most elegant way to write the ideas down.)

thorough and practical account of survey sampling.......2002-04-25

This book provides a graduate level text for survey sampling based on models including superpopulation models. It is a very up-to-date and modern approach and includes material on resampling methods as well as all the classical material on random sampling, stratified sampling and sampling proportional to size. They also provide methods for handling regression problems in the finite population context and even provide names of available software packages. Important topics (particularly for censuses) such as measurement error, nonresponse and imputation methods are all nicely treated. The book contains some practical examples and several classroom exercises.

Review of Model-assisted Survey sampling.......2000-03-31

A great reference for survey sampling results. Derivations are mathematically rigorous and not for the faint of heart! I would not suggest this book for beginning grad students, as it is lacking somewhat in readability.

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No writer has been more efficiently overshadowed by his imitators than Ernest Hemingway. From the moment he unleashed his stripped-down, declarative sentences on the world, he began breeding entire generations of miniature Hemingways, who latched on to his subtractive style without ever wondering what he'd removed, or why. And his tendency to lapse into self-parody during the latter half of his career didn't help matters. But In Our Time, which Hemingway published in 1925, reminds us of just how fresh and accomplished his writing could be--and gives at least an inkling of why Ezra Pound could call him the finest prose stylist in the world.

In his first commercially published book (following the small-press appearance of Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1924), Hemingway was still wearing his influences on his sleeve. The vignettes between each story smack of Gertrude Stein, whose minimalist punctuation and clodhopping rhythms he was happy to borrow. "My Old Man" sounds like Huck Finn on the Grand Tour: "Well, we went to live at Maisons-Lafitte, where just about everybody lives except the gang at Chantilly, with a Mrs. Meyers that runs a boarding house. Maisons is about the swellest place to live I've ever seen in all my life." But in the "The Battler" or "Indian Camp" or "Big Two-Hearted River," Hemingway finds his own voice, shunning the least hint of rhetorical inflation and sticking to just the facts, ma'am. His reluctance to traffic in high-flown abstraction has often been chalked up to postwar disillusion--as though he were too much of a simpleton to make deliberate stylistic decisions. Still, nobody can read "Soldier's Home" without drawing a certain connection between the two. Returning home to Oklahoma, the hero finds that his tales of combat are now a bankrupt genre:

Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne forest and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories.

If we are to believe Michael Reynolds and Ann Douglas, this passage reflects the author's own dreary homecoming as a member of the lost generation. It's also a fine example of a surprisingly rare phenomenon, at least at this point in his career: Hemingway being funny. --James Marcus

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THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS

When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose -- enlivened by an car for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart.

Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works.

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THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose - enlivened by an car for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works.

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The essence of Hemingway is here .......2007-09-05

It is not true that Hemingway would go on to create works better than some of the stories in this work. In some of these short pieces we have the essential Hemingway, the best that he has to give. In fact his whole picture of the world, the emphasis on 'grace under pressure' the devastating effect of war and violence, the presentation of a kind of code hero, above all the simplicity and beauty of the language are here.
This is the beginning of Hemingway but it is also the essence and the best.

Hemingway's Sketchbook.......2007-07-12

Reading the assembled vignettes and short stories of In Our Time, "Hemingway's American debut," is like taking a look at an artist's working sketches that eventually evolve into masterpieces. The reader finds all of the usual denizens of Hemingway's world: anglers, ex-patriates, toreadors, soldiers, men and women who are in love, and those who have fallen out. And, of course, Nick Adams. In these tales, Hemingway demonstrates the superfluousness of semicolons and the superiority of spartan sentences for which he is famous.

While it isn't my favorite of Hemingway's works, it makes a good sampler for those wishing to get short doses of Hemingway, especially for those whose only exposure to Hemingway was reading The Old Man and The Sea in high school.

In Our Time.......2007-04-30

This is a fine collection of (exceedingly) short stories that deal with existential themes: nature, alienation, and death. In between the stories Hemingway includes even shorter vignettes of cruelty. Brief comments on the stories (with some plot spoilers) follow:

"On the Quai at Smyrna" - An American encounters casual cruelty among the Turks and Greeks during World War I.

"Indian Camp" - Nick Adams and his father, a scientific man who is quite detached from other people, visit an Indian camp where his father performs a Caesarian without anesthetic. While he performs the operation, the baby's father kills himself by cutting his throat with a straight razor.

"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" - Nick's mother is revealed to be weak willed and self-deceiving, and we are not too surprised to learn that Nick prefers his father's company.

"The End of Something" - The adolescent Nick ends a relationship with a girl. Before the end comes, Hemingway provides a typically economical but touching depiction of Marjorie, his girlfriend, as they row across a lake with their lines in the water: "She was intent on the rod all the time they trolled, even while she talked. She loved to fish. She loved to fish with Nick."

"The Three-Day Blow" - Nick and his friend Bill drink quietly in front of a fireplace during a storm - they are just learning to drink - and later disregard an important gun safety precaution.

"The Battler" - Nick encounters a damaged former prizefighter.

"A Very Short Story" - (Well, they almost all are.) An American develops an affection for an Italian nurse and expects to marry her, but she loses interest after the end of the war.

"Soldier's Home" - A young man returns home after World War I, disillusioned and alienated.

"The Revolutionist" - Not really a story at all but a very brief character sketch of a young communist traveling through Italy after World War I.

"Mr. And Mrs. Elliot" - A young poet supposes himself to be a superior sort of person but turns out to be ordinary.

"Cat in the Rain" An American wife tries to rescue a kitten from the rain.

"Out of Season" - A young man wants to go fishing but then decides not to.

"Cross-Country Snow" - Nick Adams and a friend go skiing in Switzerland and find it to be a very satisfying experience.

"My Old Man" - A man's father dies in an accident, tragically, since his son knows that he is crooked.

"Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" - Nick Adams returns to his home ground for a solitary camping trip.

"Big Two-Hearted River: Part II" - He goes fishing too.

Hemingway's Concept Album.......2007-01-13

"In Our Time," the first published work of fiction by Ernest Hemingway, reads like a sketchpad at times, notes toward a novel. In fact, the seeds for two of Hemingway's earliest novels, "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell To Arms," can be found here, but "In Our Time" works better than either of those classics when it comes to showing why Hemingway mattered, and still does.

Hemingway is a writer prized for his economic writing style, and he doesn't get more economical than here. The stories in this collection sometimes run just two or three pages, and are broken up by even briefer story nuggets that read like brushwork haikus.

Included are three of Hemingway's most celebrated shorts, "Soldier's Home," "Indian Camp," and "Big Two-Hearted River," but while these and a couple of others ("The Battler" "My Old Man") are gripping enough read alone, they really come alive here in tandem with "In Our Time's" other stories and anecdotes. The mood of "In Our Time" seems more important than any message, and is certainly easier to discern.

First published in 1925, "In Our Time" expresses a world-weariness typical of the generation that came home from the First World War, "The War To End All Wars," to find their glorious dreams and beliefs shattered. Cynicism was a newer thing in Hemingway's time, and harder for his generation to digest. Presenting himself in slightly fictionalized form as one Nick Adams, Hemingway looks backward to moments of nausea in his youth, bitter breakups and parental failures, before dealing with how the war itself left him shattered. Sometimes the lens of the book moves to characters other than Nick, but it never leaves aside that spirit of disillusion and loss.

"He did not want any consequences," he writes of Krebs, the protagonist of "Soldier's Home." "He did not want any consequences ever again."

Hemingway writes beautifully and sparingly throughout "In Our Time," showing generations of writers how much more effective an idea can be when a writer leaves it to a reader to work it out. No story better illustrates his singular command than "Big Two-Hearted River," an elegy and grace note in two parts for all that comes before, as Nick recaptures a sense of peace fishing for trout on a river. It's one of the longest stories, and may seem aimless to a first-time reader as it focuses on the nitty-gritty of Nick's routine, but the more you read it, the more drawn in you become, until you feel like you are on that river with Nick, plucking black grasshoppers off the tall grass.

People say Frank Sinatra did the first concept album with "In The Wee Small Hours," but it seems to me Hemingway had him beat by some 30 years with these tone poems of stunning narrative craft.

Why not have it all?.......2006-05-24

If you're looking for an introduction to Hemingway's shorter works, I'd recommend getting the whole collection at once. Even anthologized, the complete short stories don't make too large a book, and you'll have a much better range of work to peruse. Some of Hemingway's favorite works (The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, The Light of the World) and some of the most frequently referenced in high school and college lit classes (Hills Like White Elephants) are not to be found in this slimmer volume. While this book represents Hemingway's important debut, you can achieve the same understanding of his first stories by reading them chronologically from an anthology.

A complete anthology also provides something that this collection of early work does not explore in detail: Hemingway's obsession with "sea change" and gender-bending. This is a major theme in his life and writing that challenges most readers' conception of him as ultra-masculine.

If you're sour on Hemingway because this is your only taste of his writing, I'd urge you to check out some of his later works, which are more stylistically his own, and also perhaps more accessible.

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Hemingway at his very best...
A Great Introduction to "Papa"
A way to discover Hemingway
Bully!
The Ongoing Debate

Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Paperback

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The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

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Hemingway at his very best..........2007-04-03

This, as well as Hemingway's collected short stories, was a real pleasure to read every time I decided to read and reread this work. Very few short story writers write about things that common people can easily relate to. I never liked reading as a kid, then I found myself absorbed in Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, and Hemingway's writings - mainly thier short stories. Contemporary authors I can think of that hold a match to Hemingway are few and far between. Kurt Vonnegut, J.S. Moore, and John Irving come to mind but that is about it as far as writers I can easily follow and find myself wishing for more from them. Hemingway, though, is my favorite author from that list. "The Killers" is one I recommend from this collection to anyone willing to give Ernest a try.

A Great Introduction to "Papa".......2007-03-20

Having grown up in the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, it is easy for me to relate to most of these stories written by Hemingway. I think this book would be a great introduction to Papa's writing for anyone, especially the younger readers. Admittedly, he can be rather dry as someone else put it, but these short stories give you a taste of Hemingway in small doses rather than an entire book.

A way to discover Hemingway.......2006-09-03

I had not read much of Hemingway before this book. He is definitely unique.
I'm glad I bought the book, even though some of his stories are basic, hard to understand, and lack "polish."
I still enjoyed the stories. They are quite different in presentation.

Bully!.......2005-01-28

I enjoyed the Nick Adams stories and have to give it a five star review. If you enjoy Hemingways writing then this is a must, one story "Big Two Hearted River" (which also has a very strong micro brew named after it and very cool art work on the label,I'd like to have the artwork not the label) when Nick went fishing and set his pack down and he looks back at the indentation his back had made reminds me...Better stop reading and buy the book I feel a spell coming on...It reminds me of an old army issue sleeping bag that we somehow ended up and there was no end to the tales of its wonders and virtues, but you dare not wash the thing or it would undermine the insulating qualities of the goose down insulation. Being a minor asthmatic I was quite harty despite being pitiful and week, I took this sleeping bag on a week long boy scouting camp out with my big buddy Big John. You see Big John drove to the meetings and I was 4 years his junior but he tolerated my company and I got to hang with the older kids. John was fifteen and had no license but this was the country so we didn't worry about such nonsense. Well by the second day I could hardly breath, I reckon my wheezing could have been heard for miles, so they called me to the scout masters office and asked me if I was sick and I said yes and they gave a knowing condescending smile to one another and drove me home. I was in bed with bronchitis for a week and finally recovered.The scout masters thought I was homesick,hence the condescending smirks. Later many years later I had allergy tests and mold and mildew really aggravate me, so if one puts 2 and 2 together they come up with the idea that sleeping in a filthy 30 year old sleeping bag might cause one with allergies some problems. Fortunately our dog Myrtle ( a beagle) gave birth on the sleeping bag and so it was then covered with afterbirth. I figured the thing was gone for good, we dared not wash it,I hated that bag and would want to wretch at the site of the pile of khaki green... I think my brother still has the thing still uses it believing in its amazing powers, heck the thing nearly kilt me and that's powerful in itself so I guess maybe it does have amazing powers, I know I will not tempt fate again. I quit scouts shortly after this since Big John quit and I was not about to have my mom drive me to those stupid meetings.Buy the Nick Adams stories, they have to be better than what you just suffered through.Perhaps you have to much time on your hands.

From BIg Two Hearted RIver:
Nick drank the coffee, the coffee according to Hopkins. The coffee was bitter Nick laughed. It made a good ending to the story. His mind was starting to work. He knew he could choke it because he was tired enough. He spilled the coffee out of the pot and shook the grounds loose into the fire. He lit a cigarette and went inside the tent. He took off his shoes and trousers, sitting on the blankets, rolled the shoes up inside the trousers for a pillow and got in between the blankets.

Out through the front of the tent he watched the glow of the fire when the night wind blew. It was a quiet night The swamp was perfectly quiet. Nick stretched under the blanket comfortably. A mosquito hummed close to his ear. Nick sat up and lit a match. The mosquito was on the canvas, over his head Nick moved the match quickly up to it. The mosquito made a satisfactory hiss in the flame. The match went out. Nick lay down again under the blanket. He turned on his side and shut his eyes. He was sleepy. He felt sleep coming. He curled up under the blanket and went to sleep.

In retrospect I suppose Nick was right in using blankets instead of a moldy old sleeping bag. One can learn from others experience.

The Ongoing Debate.......2002-10-08

I find it admirable that the publisher chose to include Nick Adams drafts that Hemingway worked on, set aside, and did not publish during his life. While incomplete as stories, they give insight into the creative process. Insofar as the stories Hemingway did publish, some are quite good: "Ten Indians", a story of adolescent love, rejection, and the resiliency of the teenage mind; "The Battler", a wonderful portrayal of mental illness among drifters and hobos; and "Fathers and Sons", a death meditation.

Other stories, such as the famous "Big Two Hearted River" and "The Killers" are just not very good. What is the significance of "Big Two Hearted River" consisting of two parts? Beats the hell of me. And the entire story is about nothing but the rituals of fishing and camping, which Hemingway describes to the point of fetishization. There is something at the very end about the swamp being a "tragic" place to fish, but that there will be another time to confront it. Don't be so obscure, Hem. What are you talking about? We'll never know because the story is devoid as to what's on Nick's mind (See footnote below). And then "The Killers" is implausible: contract killers are not ingenue who intentionally leave evidence trails and toss out incriminating statements; and witnesses do call the cops.

What I notice about all of the stories is that Hemingway mostly focuses on external things, and that little or nothing of the characters' inner lives is revealed. Because details of hunting, fishing and camping are interesting to a point only, ultimately, I lose interest. Hemingway's style is also annoying: he was too much the reporter and not enough the poet. Because he never sings, very little description is unique or memorable.

We must remember that these stories were written and published in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time Art Deco - simple, unadorned, streamlined - was popluar. Perhaps Hemingway, like many great artists, subconsciously intuited the zeitgeist, or spirit of the time, and reflected that in his writing. Hemingway's style and substance now seem dated. But at one time, like Art Deco, they were revolutionary. Perhaps that explains Hemingway's once extraordinary popularity which seems incomprehensible now.

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The dark, feverish imagination of Steve Niles has produced some classic works of horror, such as 30 Days of Night. This special collection gathers up some of his most twisted one-shots in one volume. Contained within is Niles' re-telling of "Hyde," his spooky all-ages tale, "A Very Big Monster Show," and the ghastly short stories of "Horrorcide." Illustrated by some of the best horror artists in comics today, the stories contained in Steve Niles' Cellar of Nastiness offer you dark journeys and dangerous visions.

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More from creator of "30 Days of Night".......2007-08-02

Steve Niles has amply demonstrated his warped imagination by sending a legion of vampires to a lonely Alaskan town where the sun doesn't rise for 30 days. For more insight into his strangely twisted creative vein, descend into his "Cellar of Nastiness" for a handful of short, unrelated tales.

The book begins with a modern retelling of the Jekyll & Hyde yarn, co-written by Kris Oprisko and featuring the jagged, mottled artwork of Nick Stakal. Jekyll in this case is a pair of brothers, both of whom would do anything to keep their funding intact for research into the chemical mysteries of the brain. The story proceeds in the general direction you'd expect, although it certainly turns the violence up a notch and stirs the tension with Stakal's sharp edges.

For a humorous turn, "The Very Big Monster Show" features the cartoonish art of Butch Adams. Young Theo feels bad for the classic movie monsters who have been replaced in the nightmares of modern society by gorier but less imaginative creatures. By strange coincidence, Theo discovers an ancient manor in his town where, lo! the sad and retired monsters live and sulk. But Theo has big ideas, and pretty soon he's leading a road trip to Movieland where, he hopes, Frankenstein, the Mummy and all the rest will show those upstarts how it's done.

"Bitch," drawn in action-comic style by Josh Medors, is a fairly nondescript future battle of the sexes. "Torg's Big Day," drawn by Chee, shows the misadventures that can occur when a caveman is beamed into a modern laboratory -- and when a well-armed scientist fails to keep track of his weapons. "Making Amends" again features art by Medors, this time in scratchy black ink, as a criminal seeks atonement for a past deed. Finally, Ben Templesmith provides loose sketches in sepia tones as Niles unfolds the story of the "Neighborhood Creep."

This set of stories is occasionally cute, occasionally spooky, but sets no great new benchmarks in Niles' career. It's more of a curiosity for your collection than a necessity, but it's still a pleasant reading experience.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.NET editor

Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's in Our Time (Critical Essays on American Literature)

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Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's in Our Time (Critical Essays on American Literature)
Michael S. Reynolds
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Die Nick Adams Stories.
Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway's in Our Time: Lyrical Dimensions

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Hemingway's in Our Time: Lyrical Dimensions
Wendolyn E. Tetlow
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The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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