The nature of simple random sampling

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176346810MaRDI QIDQ1060503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sujit Kumar Mitra, Pramod K. Pathak

Publication date 1984

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176346810

zbMATH Keywords

admissibilityasymptotic normalitycost-adjusted efficiencyErdős-Rényi-Hájek conditionfixed cost simple random samplinginvariance propertypopulation meansample meansimple random samplingunbiasedwith replacementwithout replacement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05)

Review text

As an estimator of the population mean, the sample mean based only on the distinct units possesses a remarkable invariance property. Under three forms of simple random sampling, viz. simple random sampling without replacement (SRSWOR), simple random sampling with replacement (SRSWR), and fixed cost simple random sampling (SRSFC), it is admissible and unbiased; and asymptotically normally distributed if and only if the Erdős-Rényi-Hájek condition is satisfied. An important implication of this invariance is that for estimating the population mean, these forms of simple random sampling are asymptotically equally cost-efficient. However, from a practical point of view SRSFC does seem to provide greater flexibility in large surveys.

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