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 ...

Consider a sequence ($X_{k}\colon k\geq 0$) of regularly varying independent and identically distributed random variables with mean 0 and finite variance. We develop ...

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...

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Greg DePersio has 13+ years of professional experience in sales and SEO and 3+ years as a writer and editor. Simple random sampling is a method used to cull a smaller sample size from a larger ...