Optimal allocation for symmetric distributions in ranked set sampling

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 239-254

  Kaur, Amarjot ^a   Patil, G P ^a   Taillie, C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equal allocation; Kurtosis; Neyman allocation; Order statistics; Relative precision; Skewness; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 6744257504     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004109704714     Document Type: Article

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