Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 99A, No. 2 (Dec., 1999), pp. 171-177 (7 pages) In this paper we derive the exact covariance of some sample moments for 'simple random sampling ...
The work of Royall and Herson (1973a, 1973b), ensuring the robustness of the standard ratio estimator against polynomial superpopulation models by choosing balanced samples, is extended to a more ...