Unbalanced ranked set sampling for estimating a population proportion

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 150-158

  Chen, Haiying ^a   Stasny, Elizabeth A ^b   Wolfe, Douglas A ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary variable; Neyman allocation; Perfect ranking; Relative precision

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS;

BINARY VARIABLES; NEYMAN ALLOCATION; ORDER-STATISTICS; PERFECT RANKING; RANKED SET SAMPLING; RELATIVE PRECISION; RESEARCH TOPICS; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH STATUS; MODELING; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NUTRITION; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOM SAMPLE; SAMPLING; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

EID: 33645095687     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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