(1) Department of Mathematical Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia;(2) ISRT, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract:
An adjusted two-stage sampling procedure is discussed for adaptive cluster sampling where some networks are large and others are small. A two-stage sample is drawn from the large networks and a single-stage sample is drawn from the rest. The simple random sampling (SRS) procedure without replacement is used at the initial stage. An estimator for the population mean along with its properties is discussed.