A comparison of pivotal sampling and unequal probability sampling with replacement

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2016.09.027MaRDI QIDQ2374576zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guillaume Chauvet, Anne Ruiz-Gazen

Publication date 15 December 2016

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02688

zbMATH Keywords

sampling algorithmcube methodvariance estimatorwith-replacement samplingunequal probabilitiesmean-square consistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10)

Abstract: We prove that any implementation of pivotal sampling is more efficient than multinomial sampling. This property entails the weak consistency of the Horvitz-Thompson estimator and the existence of a conservative variance estimator. A small simulation study supports our findings.

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