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Decreasing returns to sampling without replacement

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David P. Myatt *
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David Ronayne
DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2026.112956delete
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We study sampling from a finite population without replacement when seeking an extreme (lowest or highest) value. An example is a buyer searching for the lowest price. It is well known that there are decreasing returns to sampling from continuous populations: the expected minimum is a decreasing and discretely convex function of the sample size. We show that this holds when sampling without replacement from a finite population. We also state a sufficient condition on population values for the properties to hold for other order statistics.
Keywords:
Order statistics
Sampling without replacement
Decreasing returns
Consumer search
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