Cochran's Rule for Simple Random Sampling

DOI10.1111/1467-9868.00264zbMATH Open0957.62008OpenAlexW1972700120MaRDI QIDQ4512941FDOQ4512941

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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

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zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalsEdgeworth expansionkurtosisskewnesssimple random samplingcoverage probabilitysampling fraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cited In (2)

• Small area estimation using skew normal models
• Empirical saddlepoint approximations of the Studentized mean under simple random sampling

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