On variance estimation of the ratio estimator under two-phase sampling

Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-16

  Zou, Guohua ^a   Li, Yong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ratio estimation; Superpopulation model; Two phase sampling; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037225027     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880290015413     Document Type: Article

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