The book is concerned with the study of different classes of linear estimators in survey sampling, known as T-classes of linear estimators and the theory of successive sampling. The theory of classification of linear estimators in different classes has been developed mainly by Horvitz and Thompson, Godambe, Koop, Prabhu Ajgaonkar, Tikkiwal and the theory of successive sampling by Jessen, Yates, Paterson, Tikkiwal and others. The book presents a detailed study of all the seven T-classes along with the unified theory of unordering. It also discusses the technique of combined unordering and its applications. The chapter on the theory of successive sampling deals with the theory under less restrictive assumptions for finite population, there by making it possible to obtain the main results given in text books on survey sampling, as a special case of the these results. The theory of T-classes along with the theory of successive sampling provide more serviceable estimation procedure based on the time honoured principles of inference than the one provided by Basu, Godambe and others. The material present in this book is meant for one specialised sample survey course in semester scheme for the post graduate students of statistics. Therefore, it can be used as a text book. The book is also useful for research students and faculty engaged in research on theoretical foundations of inference from finite population.

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In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region--ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War. Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light on the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.

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