On a pragmatic modification of survey sampling in three stages |
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Authors: | Arijit Chaudhuri |
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Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics and Statistics , University of Nebraska-Lincoln , Lincoln, NE, 68588-0323, USA |
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Abstract: | Presented are formulae for an unbiased estimator of a finite population total and an unbiased variance estimator for it when samples are taken by usual procedures in the first two stages with varying probabilities but the third stage units are sampled for economy and convenience in a non-standard way from the pool of all sampled second stage units rather than independently from each of the latter separately containing the former. |
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Keywords: | Sampling in three stages unbiased estimation variance estimator varying probabilities |
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