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Handling missing data in ranked set sampling

The existence of missing observations is a very important aspect to be considered in the application of survey sampling, for example. In human populations they may be caused by a refusal of some interviewees to give the true value for the variable of interest. Traditionally, simple random sampling i...

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Autor principal: Bouza-Herrera, Carlos N
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39899-5
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1625537
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Sumario:The existence of missing observations is a very important aspect to be considered in the application of survey sampling, for example. In human populations they may be caused by a refusal of some interviewees to give the true value for the variable of interest. Traditionally, simple random sampling is used to select samples. Most statistical models are supported by the use of samples selected by means of this design. In recent decades, an alternative design has started being used, which, in many cases, shows an improvement in terms of accuracy compared with traditional sampling. It is called R