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Q166Section III (Statistics)166 of 180

Optimum (Neyman–cost) allocation in stratified sampling

In stratified random sampling with a linear cost function C=C0+∑h=1LChnhC=C_0+\sum_{h=1}^{L}C_hn_h, the variance of estimated mean (Y‾st)(\overline Y_{st}) is minimum for a specified cost C and the cost is minimum for a specified variance of Y‾st\overline Y_{st} when:

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