Difference Estimators of Quantiles in Finite Populations

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Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 481-496

  Del Mar Rueda, María ^a,b   Arcos, Antonio ^a   Martínez, M Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Auxiliary information; Confidence interval; Difference estimator; Finite population quantiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342308272     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02595726     Document Type: Article

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