Giles (2007) presents a summary of the debate that began as soon as Burnham et al. (2006) published their Iraq Mortality Survey (IMS) results in the British journal The Lancet. His article starts: ...

Local blackbird populations cause most of the damage to sunflower crops in North Dakota. Precise estimates of blackbird breeding populations are necessary before management practices designed to ...

Estimators for finite population parameters and their variances in two-stage sampling have been developed by using the linear least-squares prediction approach in a recent article by Royall (1976).