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Dalenius, T. (1976). Sample-Dependent Estimation in Survey Sampling. In: Ziegler, W.J. (eds) Contribution to Applied Statistics. Experientia Supplementum, vol 22. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5513-6_5
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