The optimal ranked-set sampling scheme for inference on population quantiles

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-37

  Chen, Zehua ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Bahadur representation; Optimal sampling design; Quantile; Ranked set sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035589086     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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