On 5/14/07, Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]> wrote:
Carlo,
A reading of Kish, Lohr, Deming and others on sampling will show differences due to finite population
effect will diminish as the sample size increases. At the size you propose to investigate, there
should be little difference between the methods in which you are interested. You will find more
on this in Efron's works on the correct number of bootstrap trials to use.
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