Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

For the estimation of the population total of a character y, defined over a finite population of known size, "optimum" sampling strategies for the case when auxiliary information H of a type commonly ...

The accuracy of three estimators of sampling variance using non-replacement probability lattice samples was determined empirically on a microuniverse. A simple split-sample scheme, although biased, ...

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