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ABSTRACT
The paper considers a general class of Bayes estimators for estimating the finite population mean which also achieve design consistency. Some exact results are given where Bayes estimators agree with the Horvitz-Thompson or ratio estimators. For a wider class of priors, asymptotic mathematical equivalence of Bayes estimators with the above estimators is provided.
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