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When more than one (say p) characteristics in multivariate stratified population are defined on each unit of the population, the individual optimum allocations may differ widely and can not be used practically. Moreover, there may be a situation such that no standard allocation is advisable to all the strata, for one reason or another. In such a situation, Clark and Steel (J R Stat Soc, Ser D Stat 49(2):197–207, 2000) suggested that different allocations may be used for different groups of strata having some common characteristics for double sampling in stratification. Later on, Ahsan et al. (Aligarh J Stat 25:87–97, 2005) used the same concept in univariate stratified sampling. They minimized the variance of the stratified sample mean for a fixed cost to obtain an allocation and called this allocation “mixed allocation”. In the present paper, a “compromise mixed allocation” is worked out for the fixed precisions of the estimates of the p-population means of a multivariate stratified population. A numerical example is also presented.
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Varshney, R., Ansari, A.H. & Ahsan, M.J. Minimum Cost Compromise Mixed Allocation. J Math Model Algor 12, 373–381 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10852-012-9215-3
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