INTEGER SOLUTION TO THE ALLOCATION PROBLEM IN STRATIFIED SAMPLING

S. Pirzada; S. Maqbool

S. Pirzada
S. Maqbool

Keywords: Stratiﬁed sampling, non linear integer programming, allocation problem, langrangian multiplier.

Abstract

In this paper, we formulate the stratiﬁed sampling problem with linear and non-linear sampling costs and use branch and bound technique to obtain the integer solution. In numerical illustration, it is seen that the situation of more than hundred percent sampling can be tackled using branch and bound technique.