Cochran's Rule for Simple Random Sampling

DOI10.1111/1467-9868.00264MaRDI QIDQ4512941zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 29 March 2001

Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9868.00264

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalsEdgeworth expansionkurtosisskewnesssimple random samplingcoverage probabilitysampling fraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25)

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