Ranked Set Sampling: Theory and Applications.

Zehua CHEN, Zhidong BAI, and Bimal K. SINHA. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004. ISBN 0-387-40263-2. xii + 224 pp. $59.95 (P).

In statistical inference, whether faced with an estimation or testing problem, we typically try to maximize the amount of information extracted from the data subject to some budgetary constraint. In this regard, a sampling design that reduces the sampling cost while keeping the information content high is desirable. This is especially important in environmental research, where physical evaluation of the experimental units is prohibitively expensive. In many situations, subjective information is often ...