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OWING to absence abroad, I had missed Dr. P. V. Sukhatme's note discussing this subject1. The over-estimation of crop yields with sample-cuts of a very small size was reported by us in 1940, and since then a good deal of work on the subject has been done in the Indian Statistical Institute. Certain observations based on the experience gained in the course of the above work would appear to be called for in the present connexion.
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MAHALANOBIS, P. Use of Small-Size Plots in Sample Surveys for Crop Yields. Nature 158, 798–799 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158798a0
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