A computer uses random digit dialing to create phone numbers from a list of all telephone exchanges, which allows unlisted numbers to be called as well as listed numbers.
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Common methods of conducting a probability sample of the household population in the United States are Area Probability Sampling, Random Digit Dial telephone sampling, and more recently, Address-Based Sampling.
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Bill Fox played the numbers in his birthday, his wife's birthday, the birthday of a grandson, and then for good measure plucked a few random digits from his head.
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I think it's generally agreed that memorizing a single set of 1000 ordered random digits ( say, the first 1000 digits of pi ) for long-term use isn't that hard.
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Along with Joseph Waksberg, Mitofsky is credited with developing an efficient method of sampling telephone numbers using random digit dialing, which has since been widely adopted as a sampling method.
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To calculate these weights, comScore regularly recruits panelists using random digit dialing and other offline recruiting methods to accurately determine how many users are online, aggregated by geography, income, and age.
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Even though it takes a lot of work to translate, and by the time you're done you've risked losing your place dozens of times, it's still easier to remember than random digits.
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Each survey uses an RDD ( Random Digit Dial ) sample of both landline and cell phone numbers, so as to ensure an accurate representation of the U . S . population.
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In 1947, the RAND Corporation generated numbers by the electronic simulation of a roulette wheel; the results were eventually published in 1955 as " A Million Random Digits with 100, 000 Normal Deviates ".
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As automation came of age, the RAND Corp . used a kind of electronic roulette wheel to generate a classic work, published in 1955, called " A Million Random Digits With 100, 000 Normal Deviates ."