A minimax property of the sample mean in finite populations

DOI10.1214/aos/1176345592zbMath0478.62012OpenAlexW4237729977MaRDI QIDQ1161211

E. L. Lehmann, Peter J. Bickel

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345592

zbMATH Keywords

stratified samplinglabelssimple random sampleexpected squared error

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Minimax procedures in statistical decision theory (62C20)

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