Sampling without replacement with unequal probabilities: sample designs with preassigned joint inclusion probabilities of any order (Q1089694)

\textit{B. K. Sinha}, Calcutta statist. Assoc., Bull. 22, 89-110 (1973; Zbl 0342.62003), suggested a method of constructing a sample design for a given set of (consistent) inclusion probabilities of the first two orders, \(\pi_ i\) and \(\pi_{ij}\). In this paper the author gives this procedure in an explicit form, thus generalizing the method where preassigned joint inclusion probabilities of any order are preserved. The expression for joint inclusion probabilities of order higher than the preassigned ones, resulting from the type of design so obtained, is given. Also an algorithm is given for changing the joint inclusion probabilities or the probabilities of drawing samples without affecting the inclusion probabilities of lower orders.