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In this paper we derive a bound for the variance of unbiased estimator of the finite population proportion under inverse sampling without replacement.
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Mohammadi, M. A variance bound for unbiased estimation in inverse sampling without replacement. Stat Papers 59, 1649–1655 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-017-0873-0
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