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An Asymptotic Expansion for Samples from a Finite Population

John Robinson

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An asymptotic expansion is obtained for the distribution function of the standardized mean of a sample of $s$ observations taken randomly without replacement from a finite population of $n$ numbers. The expansion is given to order $1/n$ and agrees with the formal Edgeworth expansion. The proof of the result is obtained using an approximation to the characteristic function of the standardized sum.

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An asymptotic expansion is obtained for the distribution function of the standardized mean of a sample of $s$ observations taken randomly without replacement from a finite population of $n$ numbers. The expansion is given to order $1/n$ and agrees with the formal Edgeworth expansion. The proof of the result is obtained using an approximation to the characteristic function of the standardized sum.

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An asymptotic expansion is obtained for the distribution function of the standardized mean of a sample of $s$ observations taken randomly without replacement from a finite population of $n$ numbers. The expansion is given to order $1/n$ and agrees with the formal Edgeworth expansion. The proof of the result is obtained using an approximation to the characteristic function of the standardized sum.

Key concepts: Mathematics, Edgeworth series, Asymptotic expansion, Population, Asymptotic analysis, Asymptotic distribution, Sample (material), Function (biology)

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