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On Admissibility and Uniform Admissibility in Finite Population Sampling

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Advances in the Statistical Sciences: Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Sampling Theory

Part of the book series: The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science ((WONS,volume 34))

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The paper surveys admissibility and uniform admissibility results in finite population sampling starting with the pioneering work of Professor Joshi, Professor Godambe and others. The recently introduced “stepwise Bayes” technique of Meeden and Ghosh has been explored in the proof of admissibility of well-known estimators as well as in the construction of new admissible estimators of the finite population mean and the finite population variance.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA

    Malay Ghosh

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    Ian B. MacNeill , Gary J. Umphrey , David R. Bellhouse  & Reginald J. Kulperger , ,  & 

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Ghosh, M. (1987). On Admissibility and Uniform Admissibility in Finite Population Sampling. In: MacNeill, I.B., Umphrey, G.J., Bellhouse, D.R., Kulperger, R.J. (eds) Advances in the Statistical Sciences: Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Sampling Theory. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4786-3_15

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