Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 78, No. 1 (May 2016), pp. 66-77 (12 pages) We consider the problem of unbiased estimation of a finite population mean (or proportion) ...

Abstract: In practical applications, sampled-data systems are often affected by unforeseen physical constraints that may cause deviations in the sampling interval from the expected value and result in ...

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William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, 4226 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77204, United States ...

- An **element** is the entry on which data are collected. - A **population** is the collection of all the elements of interest. - A **sample** is a subset of the population. - A **sampling frame** is ...

The NonReplacementWeightedSampler class implements a random sampler where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, and every item is sampled exactly once (without repetition ...

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