Cochran's rule for simple random sampling

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 787-793

  Sugden, R A ^a   Smith, T M F ^c   Jones, R P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Electronic Data Systems   (United Kingdom)

^c University of London ^*

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Coverage probability; Edgeworth expansion; Kurtosis; Sampling fraction; Simple random sampling; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354147     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00264     Document Type: Article

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