A New Approach to Determine the Pilot Sample Size in Two-Stage Sampling

DOI10.1081/STA-200060711zbMath1065.62143OpenAlexW2084936980MaRDI QIDQ5460665

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

Publication date: 18 July 2005

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1081/sta-200060711

zbMATH Keywords

Fisher informationnormal distributionindifference zoneconfidence intervalpoint estimationnegative exponential distributionmaximal riskbest populationfixed-widthinitial sample sizeBehrens-Fisher analog

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequential statistical analysis (62L10) Statistical ranking and selection procedures (62F07) Sequential estimation (62L12)

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