Double sampling of a finite population occurs when a sample from the population is itself sampled, with the intent of measuring variates in the subsample not already available in the sample. An ...

Many techniques in survey sampling depend on the possession of information about an auxiliary variable x, or a vector of auxiliary variables, available for the entire population. Regression estimates ...

In this sense, the proposed method is an extension of the variance of the regression estimator for two-stage sampling. The method is applied to quarterly data from the Labor Force Survey where ...

The kernel estimator fits a local mean at each point x and thus cannot even estimate a line without bias (Cleveland, Cleveland, Devlin and Grosse 1988). An estimator based on locally-weighted ...

Compare and contrast between the following concepts: Estimator and estimate An estimator is simply a rule or formula that tells us how to go about estimating a population quantity, such as population ...

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