Determining Optimum Strata Boundaries and Sample Sizes for Skewed Population with Log-Normal Distribution

DOI10.1080/03610918.2013.819917zbMath1325.62025OpenAlexW2045352372MaRDI QIDQ5259175

Dinesh Rao, M. G. M. Khan, Athar Hussain Ansari, Mohammad Jameel Ahsan

Publication date: 24 June 2015

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2013.819917

zbMATH Keywords

stratified samplingnonlinear programming problemlog-normal distributionoptimum stratificationmultistage decision problemoptimum sample sizedynamic programming technique

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Nonlinear programming (90C30) Dynamic programming (90C39)

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