Sandwich estimation for multi-unit reporting on a stratified heterogeneous surface.

Spatial sampling is widely used in environmental and social research. In this paper we consider the situation where instead of a single global estimate of the mean of an attribute for an area, estimates are required for each of many geographically defined reporting units (such as counties or grid ce...

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Published in:	Environment & Planning A Vol. 45; no. 10; pp. 2515 - 2535
Main Authors:	Jin-Feng Wang, Haining, Robert, Tie-Jun Liu, Lian-Fa Li, Cheng-Sheng Jiang
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Oct2013
Subjects:	Sociological research Analysis of variance Environmental research Probability theory Mathematical statistics Estimation theory
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