Unbalanced ranked set sampling for estimating a population proportion under imperfect rankings

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2116-2125

  Chen, Haiying ^a   Stasny, Elizabeth A ^b   Wolfe, Douglas A ^b   MacEachern, Steven N ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary variable; Neyman allocation; Ranking errors; Relative precision; Training sample

Indexed keywords

BINARY VARIABLE; BINARY VARIABLES; DATA SETS; IMPERFECT RANKING; ORDER STATISTICS; RANKED SET SAMPLING; TRAINING SAMPLE;

ERRORS;

EID: 73149113761     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802677208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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