A Study on the Chain Ratio-Type Estimator of Finite Population Variance

We suggest an estimator using two auxiliary variables for the estimation of the unknown population variance. The bias and the mean square error of the proposed estimator are obtained to the first order of approximations. In addition, the problem is extended to two-phase sampling scheme. After theore...

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Main Authors: Yunusa Olufadi, Cem Kadilar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/723982
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Summary:We suggest an estimator using two auxiliary variables for the estimation of the unknown population variance. The bias and the mean square error of the proposed estimator are obtained to the first order of approximations. In addition, the problem is extended to two-phase sampling scheme. After theoretical comparisons, as an illustration, a numerical comparison is carried out to examine the performance of the suggested estimator with several estimators.
ISSN:1687-952X
1687-9538