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This paper is about the asymptotic distribution of linear combinations of stratum means in stratified sampling, with and without replacement. Both the number of strata and their size is arbitrary.

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We consider semiparametric models for which solution of Horvitz-Thompson or inverse probability weighted (IPW) likelihood equations with two-phase stratified samples leads to $\sqrt N $ consistent and ...

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