Environmental sampling with a concomitant variable: A comparison between ranked set sampling and stratified simple random sampling

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 231-256

  Kaur, Amarjot ^a   Patil, G P ^a   Shirk, Susan J ^a   Taillie, Charles ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING; RANDOM SAMPLING; SAMPLING METHOD; STRATIFIED SAMPLING;

EID: 0030476770     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664769624224     Document Type: Article

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