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Optimum Sampling Strategies., T. V. Hanurav Dr.

Doctoral Theses

The advantages sample surveys over complete censuses are well known and seem to be fully appreaciated as is evidenced by the increasing use of sample surveys now a days as a means of collecting information.The use of probability theory to make rigorous inductive inferences has been well recognised for a long time. Such inferences can be made only when observations which form the basis of the infe- rence are generated by some chance mechanism, In traditional applica- tions, the statistician usually assume s or takes for granted some kind of chan ce mechanism behind the o bservations, where as in …