Abstract In this research work we introduce a new sampling design, namely two-stage cluster sampling, where probability proportional to size with replacement is used in the first stage unit and ranked set second order address issue of marked variability sizes population units concerned sampling. We obtained an unbiased estimator mean total, as well variance estimator. calculated relative effici...

Decision makers are often unable to choose between the options that they are offered. In these settings they typically defer their decision, that is, delay the decision to a later point in time or avoid the decision altogether. In this paper, we outline eight behavioral findings regarding the causes and consequences of choice deferral that cognitive theories of decision making should be able to...

At the early stage of drug discovery, many thousands of chemical compounds can be synthesized and tested (assayed) for potency (activity) with High Throughput Screening (HTS). With ever increasing numbers of compounds to be tested (now often in the neighborhood of 500,000) it remains a challenge to find strategies via sequential design that reduce costs while locating classes of active compound...

This article discusses how sequential sampling models can be integrated in a cognitive architecture. The new theory Retrieval by Accumulating Evidence in an Architecture (RACE/A) combines the level of detail typically provided by sequential sampling models with the level of task complexity typically provided by cognitive architectures. We will use RACE/A to model data from two variants of a pic...

Reliable estimates of abundance are needed to assess consequences of proposed habitat restoration and enhancement projects on freshwater mussels in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR). Although there is general guidance on sampling techniques for population assessment of freshwater mussels, the actual performance of sampling designs can depend critically on the population density and spatial dist...

this paper studies the sequential sampling scheme, as a solution to the problem of aliasing, where the sampling interval is restricted to a minimum allowable value d t. in the sequential sampling, the signal is sampled at intervals of d t, d t+ dt , d t+2 dt , d t+3 dt , ...; where dt < d t and may be selected as desirable. the sequential sampling is, however, analyzed and it is proven that, wh...

In this paper, two-stage and purely sequential estimation procedures are considered to construct fixed-width confidence intervals for the reliability parameter under the stress-strength model when the stress and strength are independent exponential random variables with different scale parameters. The exact distribution of the stopping rule under the purely sequential procedure is approximated ...

This paper investigates the variance reduction techniques Antithetic Variates (AV) and Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) when used for sequential sampling in stochastic programming presents a comparative computational study. It shows conditions under which with AV LHS satisfy finite stopping guarantees are asymptotically valid, discussing detail. computationally compares their use both non-sequent...