Abstract
Sathe (1977) improved upon the bounds of Mikulski and Smith (1976) for the variance of inverse binomial estimator. We have obtained still better upper bounds. The betterment is numerically illustrated.
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Mikulski, P.W. and Smith, P.J. (1976). A variance bound for unbiased estimation in inverse sampling. Biometrika 63, 216–17.
Sathe, Y.S. (1977). Sharper variance bounds for unbiased estimation in inverse sampling. Biometrika 64 425–26.
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Prasad, G. Sharper variance upper bound for unbiased estimation in inverse sampling. Trabajos de Estadistica y de Investigacion Operativa 33, 130–132 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888439
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888439