Finite Population Sampling: A Model-Design Synthesis

• Authors: Ghosh Malay
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper considers a general class of Bayes estimators for estimating the finite population mean which also achieve design consistency. Some exact results are given where Bayes estimators agree with the Horvitz-Thompson or ratio estimators. For a wider class of priors, asymptotic mathematical equivalence of Bayes estimators with the above estimators is provided.

• Publisher: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
• Journal: Statistics in Transition new series
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 235-242

Contributors

author

Ghosh Malay

• University of Florida

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