Consider a population of 70 individuals, for which you wish to estimate the mean annual income, μ. Assume that you have decided to use the following estimation procedure to make your estimate: simple ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although mark-resight methods can often be a less expensive and less invasive means for estimating abundance in long-term population ...

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) ...

(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 ...