On efficiency of cluster sampling on sampling on two occasions

In this paper it has been shown that even if the intra-class correlation coefficient among the units in the same cluster is positive, under certain condition, the cluster sampling on two occasions is likely to be more efficient than the simple random sampling on two occasions to estimate the populat...

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Main Author: Bijoy Kumar Pradhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2007-10-01
Series:Statistica
Online Access:http://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/31