Estimation of the population total when the population size is unknown

Manzoor Ahmad, Serge Alalouf and Yogendra P. Chaubey

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2000, vol. 49, issue 3, 211-216

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of estimating the population total when the population size is unknown. A sampling design, in which units are selected with equal probability, are sequentially marked and then returned back until a fixed number of repetitions occur, has been considered. This allows the estimation of the population size as well as the population total. A formula for confidence intervals for the population total is derived along with an approximately unbiased estimator for the variance of the estimator of the population total.

Keywords: Population; size; Distinct; units; Simple; random; sample; Sequential; sampling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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