… Just as in the conventional finite population setting, in which neither the Horvitz-Thompson …
However, in the examples of this article, the adaptive Horvitz-Thompson estimator tHT, …

Cancer is a key health issue across the world, causing substantial patient morbidity and
mortality. Patient prognosis is tightly linked with metastatic dissemination of the disease to …

Praise for the Second Edition" This book has never had a competitor. It is the only book that
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… Designs of this type without detectability problems are described in Thompson (1991a). Now
suppose that the probability of detecting an animal, given that it is in a unit in the sample, is …

Gastrointestinal healing is a topic rarely reviewed in the literature, yet it is of paramount
importance to the surgeon. Failure of anastomotic healing may lead to life‐threatening …

Achalasia is a rare disorder of the oesophageal smooth muscle characterized by impaired
relaxation of the lower oesophageal sphincter (LES) and absent or spastic contractions in the …

A series of tests was designed for 24-, 30-, and 36-month-old children to measure their ability
to apply various gender labels to the appropriate sexes, their capacity to place themselves …

Human cathepsin K is a recently identified protein with high primary sequence homology to
members of the papain cysteine protease superfamily including cathepsins S, L, and B and …

This article presents a procedure and a table for selecting sample size for simultaneously
estimating the parameters of a multinomial distribution. The results are obtained by examining …

… The estimator t3 is not a true Horwitz-Thompson estimator because the intersection probabilities
-77-, are not identical to the inclusion probabilities under the adaptive cluster sampling …