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A probability sampling plan is suggested in this paper for drawing the sample so that the linear least-squares predictor of the total of a finite population is made asymptotically design-unbiased. Conditions are given for the sampling plan to reduce to the more familiar sample designs discussed in the literature.
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Siu‐Ming Tam (1988) studied this question.
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