Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5129777 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 2017 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We prove that any implementation of pivotal sampling is more efficient than multinomial sampling. This yields the weak consistency of the Horvitz-Thompson estimator and the existence of a conservative variance estimator. A small simulation study supports our findings.
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Authors
Guillaume Chauvet,