Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 78, No. 1 (May 2016), pp. 66-77 (12 pages) We consider the problem of unbiased estimation of a finite population mean (or proportion) ...
In sampling with replacement from a finite population, the sample mean is known to get a smaller variance if repetitions are deleted before forming the mean. The asymptotic behavior of the variance ...
(1) Simple random sampling is usually done without replacement (so there is no chance of the same individual appearing twice in the sample). In this case, there is a ...