Variance Estimation Using Quality Characteristic

Prabhakar Mishra; Rajesh Singh

doi:10.15415/mjis.2017.52011

Authors

Prabhakar Mishra Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005
Rajesh Singh Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15415/mjis.2017.52011

Keywords:

Mean square error, proportion, population variance, percent relative efficiency, simple random sampling without replacement

Abstract

This paper deals with estimation of unknown population variance of study variable (y) using auxiliary qualitative characteristic. The properties of the proposed class of estimators is studied and is supported through two real data sets.

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