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Content: Introduction -- Basic sampling: Simple random sampling -- Confidence intervals -- Sample size -- Estimating proportions, ratios, and subpopulation means -- Unequal probability sampling -- Making the best use of survey data: Auxiliary data and ratio estimation -- Regression estimation -- The sufficient statistic in sampling -- Design and model -- Some useful designs: Stratified sampling -- Cluster and systematic sampling -- Multistage designs -- Double or two-phase sampling -- Methods for elusive and hard-to detect populations -- Detectability and sampling -- Line and point transects -- Capture-recapture sampling -- Line intercept sampling -- Spatial sampling: Spatial prediction or kriging -- Spatial designs -- Plot shapes and observational methods -- Adaptive sampling: Adaptive sampling designs -- Adaptive cluster sampling -- Systematic and strip adaptive cluster sampling -- Stratified adaptive cluster sampling.