The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 852-885 (34 pages) Poverty maps are used to aid important political decisions such as allocation of development funds by governments ...

A general estimation theory for finite populations based on superpopulation models is presented. The theory is applied to normal populations and its relations to the classical theory are discussed.

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