The efficiency of ranked set sampling for parameter estimation

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 189-199

  Barabesi, Lucio ^a   El Sharaawi, Abdel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Errors in ranking; Information matrix; Ranked set sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005275334     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00078-5     Document Type: Article

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