A comparative study of optimal stratification in business and agricultural surveys
This thesis is a comparative study of optimal design-based univariate stratification as applied to highly skewed populations such as those observed in business and agricultural surveys. Optimal stratification is a widely used method for reducing the variance or cost of estimates, and this work consi...
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University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5697 |