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A comparison of pivotal sampling and unequal probability sampling with replacement

Statistics Theory 2016-09-14 v2 Applications Methodology Statistics Theory

Abstract

We prove that any implementation of pivotal sampling is more efficient than multinomial sampling. This property entails 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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@article{arxiv.1609.02688,
  title  = {A comparison of pivotal sampling and unequal probability sampling with replacement},
  author = {Guillaume Chauvet and Anne Ruiz-Gazen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02688},
  year   = {2016}
}
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