ABSTRACT
Thompson (1990, 1992), Thompson & Seber (1996), further probed into by Chaudhuri (2000) typically take up a practical situation as follows. In a geographically extensive country like India it is well-known that mineral oilfields are hard to come by. But because of an abiding need for fuel it is considered very important to explore locations where oil deposits may be sighted for commercial purposes. In such a search process it may be a good idea to circumscribe a large potential plot of land as a rectangular site. Splitting this up into a large number of smaller rectangular nonoverlapping cells one may implement a suitably designed sample survey to carry out drilling a suitable number of such cells that may happen to fall in the sample actually chosen. Unfortunately only a
negligible number of these selected plots may be found to contain enough oil contents, the rest being found empty or insignificant in content.
