Many techniques in survey sampling depend on the possession of information about an auxiliary variable x, or a vector of auxiliary variables, available for the entire population. Regression estimates ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 62, No. 3 (Dec., 2000), pp. 433-447 (15 pages) This paper discusses an econometric technique based on optimal control theory which ...