A balanced sampling approach for multi-way stratification designs for small area estimation

Survey Methodology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-234

  Falorsi, Piero Demetrio ^a   Righi, Paolo ^a  

^a Italian National Statistical Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balanced sampling; Controlled selection; Planning sampling size of small domains

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949519844     PISSN: 07140045     EISSN: 14920921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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