Asymptotics in adaptive cluster sampling

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-82

  Félix Medina, Martín H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Characteristics function; Design based inference; Finite population; Hansen Hurwitz estimator; Horvitz Thompson estimator; Multinomial distribution; Multivariate hypergeometric distribution; Simple random sampling without replacement; Unequal probability sampling with replacement

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037341522     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021973122527     Document Type: Article

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