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Sampling and Experiments · Superchallenge problem
A population is split into two strata that make up and of it, with standard deviations 30 and 10. A stratified sample takes from stratum 1 and from stratum 2 with , and the variance of the stratified estimate of the mean is (ignoring finite-population corrections)
Over all positive integers with , what is the smallest possible value of ?