A study by the universities of Cordoba and Seville develops a method that makes it possible to verify, easily and quickly, whether an olive plantation is traditional, intensive, or super-intensive.

Sampling is the process of collecting some data when collecting it all or analyzing it all is unreasonable. Before addressing why sampling still matters when massive amounts of data are available and ...

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The rise of internet polling makes it more feasible to publish estimates for Asian Americans. But these estimates offer a limited view. What does the migration to online polling mean for the country’s ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Ask a survey methodologist to explain random sampling, or how non-probability ...

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 ...