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Q126Section III (Statistics)126 of 190

A mixed unequal-probability/SRSWOR design — the sample mean is biased, but an unbiased estimator still exists

In a survey of finite population, the following method is applied to obtain a sample of size nn: (i) In the 1st draw, the iith unit is selected with probability Pi>0,i=1,…,N,∑Pi=1P_i>0, i=1,\dots,N, \sum P_i=1 and Pi≠1/NP_i\neq1/N for some ii. (ii) The remaining (n−1)(n-1) units are obtained by SRSWOR method from remaining N−1N-1 units of the population. Let Y‾\overline Y denote the sample mean, then:

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