Optimum allocation of sample to strata and stages with simple additional constraints

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-207

  Clark, Robert G ^a   Steel, D G ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Optimum allocation; Optimum cluster sizes; Stratified random sampling; Two stage sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347112331     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00230     Document Type: Article

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