Cautionary note on unbalanced ranked-set sampling

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 869-878

  Husby, Chad E ^a   Stasny, Elizabeth A ^b   Wolfe, Douglas A ^b   Frey, Jesse ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concomitant ranking; Conditional probability distributions; Median based unbalanced ranked set samples; Simple random sampling; Simulation study

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648843550     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360600743171     Document Type: Article

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