Unbiased estimators for restricted adaptive cluster sampling

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-74

  Salehi, Mohammad M ^a   Seber, George A F ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adaptive cluster sampling; Murthy's estimator; Restricted adaptive cluster sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012373237     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00208     Document Type: Article

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