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A common purpose of compositing sampling is to draw statistical inference on the population mean, and possibly on the population variance. As noted earlier (see Chapter 1), sampling units may be selected from a finite population or from a bulk population. In the former case, the sampling units are defined and exist before sampling while in the latter case, the sampling units are created by the sampling process.
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Patil, G.P., Gore, S.D., Taillie*, C. (2011). Inference on Mean and Variance. In: Composite Sampling. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7628-4_6
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