Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 42, No. 4 (1993), pp. 585-601 (17 pages) In this paper two-dimensional systematic sampling of land use is considered. Data ...

Systematic sampling means testing a hypothesis by taking several equally spaced items from a larger list, eg selecting the tenth, 20th and 30th visitor to a theme park. This can be particularly useful ...

If you specify the option METHOD=PPS_SYS, PROC SURVEYSELECT selects units by systematic random sampling with probability proportional to size. Systematic sampling selects units at a fixed interval ...