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Sequential point estimation of the means of u-statistics in finite population sampling |
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| Authors: | Malay Ghosh |
| Affiliation: | Iowa State University , |
| Abstract: | In simple random sampling without replacement from a finite population, sequential point estimators of the means of U-statistics are proposed. The proposed procedure is shown to be asymptotically risk efficient in the sense of Starr (Ann. Math. Statist. (1966), 1173-1185) |
| Keywords: | finite population simple random sampling without replacement squared error loss cost asymptotic risk efficiency backward martingales |