Some considerations of an optimum sample size for a one-stage sampling procedure

The purpose of this work is to discover an optimum sample size to be used for deciding between two methods (populations) to choose for future production. The procedure involves the formulation of a loss function, expressing the expected loss due to choosing the population with the small mean, as a f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zakich, Daniel
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41198
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02162010-020446/