An Extension of Sampford's Method for Unequal Probability Sampling

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 377-392

  Bondesson, Lennart ^a   Grafström, Anton ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conditional Poisson sampling; Pareto sampling; Pivotal method; Sampford sampling; Unequal probability sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955780020     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2010.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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