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The Variance of an Estimator in Variables Sampling*
... In variables sampling from a normal population with unknown parameters a minimum variance unbiased estimator, l;U , for the proportion of the population below a fi[r] ...
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Variance approximation under balanced sampling
... each step of the algorithm, the direction has been selected in Ker A randomly by means of vector of independent standard reduced normal variables, which intuitively provides a large entropy to the sampling ...
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Survey Weighting and the Calculation of Sampling Variance
... and would have led to an increase in sampling variances. It was not necessary to collapse cells where all schools participated, as the school non-response adjustment factor was 1.0 regardless of whether cells were ...
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On the Sampling Variance of Intraclass Correlations and Genetic Correlations
... (n 2 1) 2 2) 2 (s (n 2 1) 2 4)] ...that parameters are estimated using least-squares methods, Although this expression is trivial to derive, to my knowledge ...
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A weight-bounded importance sampling method for variance reduction
... (d5k/me) 2 , k = 1, ..., m. Firstly, we generate the a group of parameters a k1 , ...(a 2 k1 + ... + a 2 kd ) + b 2 k = 1 ...unbounded variance, while DIS and WBIS can provide a ...
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A Note on the Effect of Auxiliary Information on the Variance of Cluster Sampling
... N 2 k =N is a weighted average cluster ...anticipated variance ratio between ^ Y C and ^ Y R and that between ^ Y R and ^ Y E ...m 2 y VðN k Þ and E{Vð y k jN k Þ} ¼ Eð n k Þ, which are the two ...
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Bootstrap algorithms for variance estimation in complex survey sampling
... with parameters α and β giving chosen levels of variability of X as measured by cv x ...and variance σ 2 x i . The values of a and σ 2 were chosen to garantee the correlation between x and y ...
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Replication variance estimation under two-phase sampling
... Replication variance estimation under two-phase sam- pling is an importance practical problem in survey sampling and the KNF method is a useful tool in this ...first-phase sampling rate is ...
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Sampling the Variance-Covariance Matrix in the Bayesian Multivariate Probit Model
... restricted variance- covariance matrix directly from its conditional posterior ...Gibbs sampling algorithm to sample from the posterior density of the parameters, and hence it avoids the use of a ...
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An investigation of sequential sampling method for crossdocking simulation output variance reduction
... model variance which has an influence on the simulation computational effort ...output parameters of different combinations of input parameters and distributions, in particular model entity arrival ...
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A Nondegenerate Penalized Likelihood Estimator for Variance Parameters in Multilevel Models
... some state-level ...estimated variance of the residuals for the state-level slopes was ...the state-level covari- ...a variance estimate that happened to be zero—and it is awkward to ...
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Variance of the Isotropic Uniform Systematic Sampling
... SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING J I R ˇ ´ I J AN A ´ CEK ˇ 1 AND D ANIEL J IR AK ´ 2,3 1 Department of Biomathematics, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, V´ıdeˇnsk´a 1083, 142 20 Prague, Czech Republic, ...
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FRACTIONAL TREND OF THE VARIANCE IN CAVALIERI SAMPLING
... Cavalieri sampling is widely used in design stereology, notably to estimate the volume of a bounded object from systematic ...the variance of the corresponding estimator is therefore a relevant ...new ...
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Variance estimation for measures of change in probability sampling
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A study of variance estimation methods for systematic spatial sampling
... Osborne, J.G., 1942. Sampling errors of systematic and random surveys of cover-type areas. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 37, 256–264. Ståhl, G., Allard, A., Esseen, P.-A., Glimskär, A., Ringvall, A., Svensson, J., ...
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Replication Variance Estimation for Two-Phase Stratified Sampling
... Kott (1990) derived a formula for variance estimation when the first phase is a stratified random sample and the second phase is a restratified simple random sample based on first-phase [r] ...
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Variance-Optimal Offline and Streaming Stratified Random Sampling
... the variance at such a ...optimal variance faster than S- VOILA with single element processing, which is as expected, since as the size of the minibatch increases, better optimiza- tion decisions are made ...
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Multiplex PCR: Critical Parameters and Step-by-Step Protocol
... Amount of primer (Step 5, B and C). Initially, equimolar primer concen- trations of 0.2–0.4 µM each were used in the multiplex PCR (Figure 3c), but there was uneven amplification, with some of the products barely ...
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Prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models
... group-level variance of zero, and so the prior distribution cannot put an infinite mass in this ...or 2 groups, this actually results in an improper posterior density, essentially concluding σ α = ∞ and ...
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Prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models
... 3 Noninformative prior distributions 3.1 General considerations Noninformative prior distributions are intended to allow Bayesian inference for parameters about which not much is known beyond the data included in ...
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