Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 78, No. 1 (May 2016), pp. 66-77 (12 pages) We consider the problem of unbiased estimation of a finite population mean (or proportion) ...
In sampling with replacement from a finite population, the sample mean is known to get a smaller variance if repetitions are deleted before forming the mean. The asymptotic behavior of the variance ...