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Sampling Without Replacement: Approximation to the Probability Distribution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
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Let P be the probability distribution of a sample without replacement of size n from a finite population represented by the set N={1,2,…N}. For each r=0, 1, …, an approximation Pr is described such that the uniform norm ‖P − Pr‖ is of order (n2/N)r+1 if n2/N→0. The approximation Pr is a linear combination of uniform probability product-measures concentrated on certain subspaces of the sample space Nn.
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