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Figure 1: Histogram and Gamma Curve for mortdue
Efficiency of the proposed method could not be tested against other
established methods as they tend to only consider fixed sample sizes and not
the cost, i.e., they consider the per unit stratum cost to be a constant of
$1/.

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