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PRELIMINARY results have just reached Great Britain of an interesting example of random stratified sampling on the grand scale, devised by Dr. P. V. Sukhatme, statistician to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, and carried out by the Department of Agriculture of the Punjab. By sampling a hundred out of the total of nine million acres under wheat, the net out-turn of that crop for twenty-seven of the twenty-nine districts of the Province is estimated at 3,448,700 tons, with a standard error only just over 1 per cent. The cost of the survey scarcely exceeded Rs. 1,000 per district.
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Crop-cutting Survey of Wheat in the Punjab. Nature 154, 299 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154299b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154299b0