Estimation of population mean and variance in flock management: A ranked set sampling approach in a finite population setting

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 905-919

  Ozturk, Omer ^a   Bilgin, Omer C ^b   Wolfe, Douglas A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Concomitant variable; Finite population correction; Judgment ranking; Sampling design

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344454412     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650412331299193     Document Type: Article

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