Multistage sampling of family data is a common design in the field of genetic epidemiology, but appropriate methodologies for analyzing data collected under this design are still lacking. We propose ...

Durbin's (1953, 1967) and Des Raj's (1968) results are generalized to show that a general class of linear homogeneous unbiased estimators for a finite population total based on arbitrary sampling ...

A stratified multi-stage sampling design was used in the survey on Ayush in which villages in the rural areas and urban frame survey (UFS) blocks in the urban areas or sub-units (SU) of villages or ...