The efficiency of ranked-set sampling relative to simple random sampling under multi-parameter families

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 247-263

  Chen, Zehua ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asymptotic relative efficiency; Confidence interval; Fisher information; Maximum likelihood estimation; Ranked set sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034387040     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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