Ranked set sampling: Cost and optimal set size

Biometrics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 964-971

  Nahhas, Ramzi W ^a   Wolfe, Douglas A ^b   Chen, Haiying ^b  

^a Wycliffe Bible Translators   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concomitant ranking; Cost models; Estimation of the population mean; Pairwise comparisons; Ranking error models; Relative efficiency; Visual ranking

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATING;

CONCOMITANT RANKING; COST MODELS; ERROR MODELING; ESTIMATION OF THE POPULATION MEAN; OPTIMAL SETS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; RANKED SET SAMPLING; RANKING ERROR MODEL; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; VISUAL RANKING;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

BIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CALCULATION; COST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING;

EID: 0036966289     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2002.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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