two-phase sample size estimation with pre-assigned variance under normality assumption

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m. salehi

abstract

we develop a two phase sampling procedure to determine the sample size necessary to estimatethe population mean of a normally distributed random variable and show that the resulting estimator has preassigned variance and is unbiased under a regular condition. we present a necessary and sufficient condition under which the final sample mean is an unbiased estimator for the population mean.

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Journal title:
iranian journal of science and technology (sciences)

ISSN 1028-6276

volume 34

issue 4 2010

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