We analyze five prominent time series of global temperature (over land and ocean) for their common time interval since 1979: three surface temperature records (from NASA/GISS, NOAA/NCDC and HadCRU) and two lower-troposphere (LT) temperature records based on satellite microwave sensors (from RSS and UAH). All five series show consistent global warming trends ranging from 0.014 to 0.018 K yr−1. W...

Little is known about past and present mortality in Vietnam, as the first official data on mortality have only recently become available from censuses taken in 1979 and 1989. Using these data, I estimate Vietnamese mortality during the intercensal period using two techniques that rely on age-specific growth rates from two successive age distributions. Intercensal emigration and differential com...

Sequential sample selection methods are distinguished from conventional methods in the manner in which random numbers are used to determine the sample. Conventionally, a sample of size n is selected from a sampling frame of N sampling units by selecting n random numbers and mapping then into n of the labels in the sampling frame. Sequential methods require each sampling unit in the sampling fra...