Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for adaptive cluster sampling

Adaptive cluster sampling (ACS) is an efficient sampling design for estimating parameters of rare and clustered populations. It is widely used in ecological research. The modified Hansen-Hurwitz (HH) and Horvitz-Thompson (HT) estimators based on small samples under ACS have often highly skewed distr...

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Main Authors: Salehi, Mohammad (Author), Mohammadi, Mohammad (Author), Rao, J.N.K (Author), Berger, Yves G. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2010.
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