Abstract: Probability estimation plays a pivotal role across diverse domains, particularly in scenarios where the objective is to select non-repetitive units one at a time, with the option of ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 78, No. 1 (May 2016), pp. 66-77 (12 pages) We consider the problem of unbiased estimation of a finite population mean (or proportion) ...

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If you’ve been to Random Sample to see an art exhibition, or watch a live band, or even participate in a book club, you know just where to find its original home. It’s a white cinderblock building ...

William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, 4226 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77204, United States ...

- An **element** is the entry on which data are collected. - A **population** is the collection of all the elements of interest. - A **sample** is a subset of the population. - A **sampling frame** is ...

The NonReplacementWeightedSampler class implements a random sampler where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, and every item is sampled exactly once (without repetition ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

In the last six decades, surveys and monitoring of natural resources have increased rapidly in number and diversity, not only because of the significant increase in human pressure on natural resources ...