Efficient rounding of sampling allocations

✍ Scribed by Friedrich Pukelsheim

• Book ID: 104302609
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 124 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-7152
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00007-2

✦ Synopsis

It is shown that for rounding fractional sampling allocations to integers, the rounding method of Jefferson maximizes an efficiency coefficient that is motivated by variance minimization. (~) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.