The Choice of Subsample Size in Two-Stage Sampling
两阶段抽样中子样本容量的选择
This article presents a simple method for choosing the subsample size m in two-stage sampling when the values of the relevant design parameters, the variance ratio and the cost ratio, are not known exactly but can only be assumed to lie within some specific range. Measuring the efficiency of a choice of m by its precision relative to the optimum choice, which depends on the parameters, it is proposed to choose m so that its minimum efficiency, over the specified range of…