Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

Researchers studying hidden populations—including injection drug users, men who have sex with men, and the homeless—find that standard probability sampling methods are either inapplicable or ...

Harnessing a pervasive type of cellular messenger shows early experimental promise as a routine way of sampling and monitoring the body’s response to prescription drug exposure. Purdue University-led ...

Clinical trial samples collected for pharmacogenomic and future research are vital resources for the development of safe and effective drugs, yet collecting adequate, representative sample sets in ...

Distance sampling methods to estimate population densities are in wide use; however, this method may not be suitable for certain species or in certain habitats. Although validation of population ...

A research team has developed a novel direct sampling method based on deep generative models. Their method enables efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution across a continuous temperature ...

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